...the aggressive expansion of Communism by military means, in the hope that its failure to expand will weaken and eventually destroy the Communist system" (Safire, 1993, p. 146). This is a policy that became well known during the Vietnam era. Arguably, it was something that existed well before that time. A student argues that containment is a policy that actually began prior to World War II. The student argues that containment " began not in 1945 but in 1917." The student then expands the word however to include events which occurred after the Second World War and through the mid-1960s.
What is the relevance of the word containment to foreign policy as well as domestic life between 1945 and 1965? What needed to be contained? What strategies were involved in respect to containment? To answer this essay question, a student ought to look at this as a two-part question. That is, containment was a foreign policy strategy that was discussed much during...