History A-Level
Containment
What Containment means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The alliance's strategic aim of containing France through the combined forces of Emperor Leopold I, the Spanish Habsburgs and Protestant nations.
The US policy, officially committed to in the March 1947 Truman Doctrine, of preventing the spread of communism.
Topics that use Containment
- 2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643– 1715 (A-level only) – Challenges in Europe, 1685–1697 (AQA A-Level)
- 2R The Cold War, c1945–1991 – 1963 The Origins of the Cold War, c1945–1949 (AQA A-Level)
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- Military strategy
- Post-war settlement
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