Describe containment and the bipolar vision of the world that dominated american foreign policy from 1945 through at least the 1960s. to what extent and in what ways did the "domino theory" accurately account for american foreign policy in the immediate post-world war ii period?

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Kendrick Ibarra

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2 January, 10:37

Describe containment and the bipolar vision of the world that dominated american foreign policy from 1945 through at least the 1960s. to what extent and in what ways did the "domino theory" accurately account for american foreign policy in the immediate post-world war ii period?

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Rebecca Davies · Answer 1

Containment was the plan to stop the spread of communism. The U. S was convinced that if one country fell to communism then the surrounding ones would eventually fall to communism. We did our best to control Communism in the east. According to the U. S Countries were either purely democratic or purely communist. there was no in between.