Containment
What Containment means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The political principle established by the Truman Doctrine, committing the US to support free peoples resisting subjugation and directly targeting communist expansion.
The policy of containing communist expansion in Asia, used to justify the war to the American public.
Topics that use Containment
- Option 33: Key topic 4: Reactions to, and the end of, US involvement in Vietnam, 1964–75 - 2 Support for the war (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option P4: Key topic 1: The origins of the Cold War, 1941–58 - 2 The development of the Cold War (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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