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5. How effectively did the United States contain the spread of Communism?

The policy of containment was a foreign policy which set out to prevent the spread of communism after the Second World War.  You will have seen how the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan aimed to contain Soviet communism in Europe and the US’ commitment to this policy had been tested by the Berlin Blockade.  In this unit we will look at the extent to which the US was successful in containing the spread of communism globally, in Korea, Cuba and Vietnam.

See below for the sections on this topic:

1. The United States and events in Korea, 1950–53

2. The United States and events in Cuba, 1959–62

3. American involvement in Vietnam

4. Was the US policy of containment successful in Korean, Cuba and Vietnam?

5. How effectively did the US contain Communism: quizzes

Key vocabulary for this unit:

These are words and terms that you should be familiar with by the time you have complete this unit:

Containment

38th parallel

domino theory

Bulwark

Search and Destroy

Agent Orange

Defoliation

Counter-insurgency

Guerrilla tactics

Globalisation

Militarisation

NSC 68

Vietnamisation

Indochina

Armistice

Nuclear deterrent

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