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What was "containment"?

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a) a policy for keeping the Soviet Union within it's expanded postwar borders

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Containment is a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States. ... The strategy of "containment" is best known as a Cold War foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II.
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