Containment

There were plenty major events that occurred in the Cold War. One of the major events is the Containment. The geography of the Cold War involved containment which was really important and was a big influence to the Cold War. Containment is a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism, it was very complex to United States policy, Korean War, and Cuban Missile. The…

's writings reads more like a history archive whereas Meyerwitz appears as a critique and history of Post-WWII feminism. However, I argue that these two sources are both incredibly important in understanding what was occurring in the “sphere of containment”, as May put it. Both articles mention how women of color and white women had very different media exposures and experiences outside of the home. Meyerwitz wrote how the Ebony and Negro Digest empowered black women by showing more risque…

States and the Soviet Union. This marks the renewal of the great Red Scare as well as the start of the fight against the spread of communism, and at this time the United States was led by President Harry S. Truman. He would adopt his policy of Containment against the Soviet Union to try and just contain the communist threat to the USSR instead of making a war trying to just outright eliminate it. This policy came about in Truman’s most famous speeches in the “Truman Doctrine” where Truman would…

In Aeschylus’ The Oresteia and Sophocles’ The Oedipus Cycles, the division between public and private life is related to the distinctions between man and woman and reason and emotion. Tragedy attempts to deal with these binaries by discussing the relationship between the state in combination and traditional gender divisions. In The Oresteia and The Oedipus Cycles, women have seemingly contradictory roles of power and influence, only to be marginalized by the dominant men of law and reason. These…

The purpose of this essay is to conduct an examination through a comparative perspective of two policies that defined and shaped early Cold War foreign policy: George Kennan’s strategy of containment, as outlined in the Long Telegram, and Paul Nitze’s National Security Memorandum No. 68, abbreviated as NSC-68. Both policies, while similar in their intent to safeguard the United States from the emerging Soviet threat, pursued divergent approaches in how best to achieve this goal. As the political…

Containment originally began as a strategy pitched by US diplomat George Kennan to keep the Soviet Union from increasing communist influence in Eastern Europe. Per Kennan, the Soviets saw themselves in a constant state of war with capitalism, use fellow Marxists as allies, were aggressive due to a Russian tradition of xenophobia, and had a government that showed an inaccurate view of the inside and outside society. Although Kennan later went back on his containment policy and stated…

the Korean War was justified or not. One side believes that Truman was inconsistent with American strategic policy which is based on a statement made by Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Korea was excluded in U.S. defense perimeter of strategic containment policy. Although it is arguable that the intervention was unnecessary and unjustified, the war played an important role in modern history. The Korean War was a crucial event during the Cold War that protected the capitalist values, prevented…

repeatedly demonstrated throughout history. Since 1991, the US has turned to airpower to achieve strategic objectives in a variety of ways. While there are numerous examples, we will examine how airpower has been utilized in two general categories: containment and humanitarian rights. The first category will discuss how the US has utilized airpower to contain bad actors in support of our economic, social, and political interests. The second category demonstrates airpower utilization for…

“ Iron Curtain” When Winston Churchill spoke of an iron curtain that was descending on Europe he suggested that while it was not a physical iron curtain dividing Europe,. He spoke metaphorically referencing Soviet domination in Eastern Europe and the obvious divide between Western and Eastern ideologies. Churchill coined the term “Iron Curtain” while giving a speech in Missouri. In 1947 Bernard Baruch created the term the “Cold War” is an attempt to describe post WWII relations between Western…

The fear of the Domino Theory created a prioritization of containment by the United States in order to stop the spread of communism throughout Indochina. Instead of trying to understand Ho Chi Minh’s motives for turning North Vietnam communist, the United States tried to stop Ho at the cost of the Vietnamese people…