Containment
Containment https://diplomacy.state.gov/wp-content/themes/corpus/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/77d297fd34b4f1cb20d77ddb5ccfdcde?s=96&d=mm&r=gThe basic strategy of containing Soviet power during the Cold War. This policy would ‚”promote tendencies which must eventually find their outlet in either the break-up or the gradual mellowing of Soviet power.” George, Kennan, an American diplomat for the Department of State in the mid-1950s, is credited for conceiving this idea.