Policy Of Containment

The policy of containment was used from 1945 to 1990 to stop the Soviet Union from spreading communism to other nations and the United States. Communism was the opposite of democracy and the United States wanted to prevent this and the Soviet Union from expanding without direct confrontation or war; thus was born the US Foreign policy of containment. This foreign policy was used from 1945 to 1990 and it has had many failures and success throughout these years. Although some may think the US policy of containment was a failure , it prevented tension between the Soviet Union and the US from escalating to a war between the two.
The United States “finally ended the great depression of the 1930s” and the United States had benefited economically