cies towards each other in order to prevent or gain world power. Directly following WW2, President Truman instituted the Truman Doctrine. This doctrine said that the United States would support those countries that were in danger of be taken over by soviet influence. Using the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan the U.S. sent billions of dollars in aid to European nations to prevent the Quinones 4rise of communist parties. The United States also tried to discourage the Soviet Union from spreading communism by joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. NATO was an alliance between twelve nations with the United States as the key player. The two nations began to compete against each other in many various ways. In response to NATO, the Soviet Union created the Warsaw Pact, which was an alliance between the Soviet Union and the Soviet satellites of Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union beat the U.S. to space which motivated the U.S. to prove the U.S. space program was far more superior to the Soviet.All these acts of our government were apart of our policy of containment towards the Soviet Union and their influence by not succeeding any power to them.In the 1950's and 1960's the United States raised their efforts in their containment policy. They didn't want to see Soviet and communist influence move across Asia. In the 50's the U.S. began a war with the Soviet supported North Korea in an effort to contain communist influence over South Korea. The U.S. and other nations that were members of the United Nations sent troops down to South Korea to try and contain the North Koreans. The South Korean forces were mostly made up of U.S. and South Korean troops. The U.S. was successful in their containment of Soviet influence but lost over ...
