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America's policy toward communism was known as:

A. SALT
B. Mutually assured destruction
C. Detente
D. Containment

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Containment is the correct answer.

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America's policy toward communism was known as "D. Containment," since the idea was that the United States would "contain communism" where it already existed, instead of trying to fight it.
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