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What was the link between the policy of containment and the United States involvement in Korea and Vietnam

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The American policy of containing communism led to the Korean War and later to the Vietnam War because it committed the United States to resisting communist expansion. These wars were fought for that purpose. The containment policy said that the United States would try to prevent communism from expanding.
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