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“After World War II, the strategy of the West towards Soviet bloc crystallized as a ‘policy of containment”‘. Comment.

  • UPSC 2008
  • The World after World War II

Containment was not a single decision but a doctrine that assembled itself piece by piece between 1946 and 1949, turning an intellectual diagnosis of Soviet behaviour into the organizing principle of American — and broadly Western — Cold War strategy.

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