2004 - #5: Evaluate the impact of the United States policy of Containment in Asia and Europe during the period 1945 to 1975.

Answer

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The creation of NATO was seen as a tool of containment against USSR.

Explanation

When the western European countries and America unified the military power, it was viewed as a strategy against containment of the USSR. Then West Germany joined that alliance, soviet union was threatened and the response led to the Warsaw Pact 1955 that had a significant effect on policies for both sides in the cold war.

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