Throughout American history, the U.S had fought many wars throughout time. The cold war was a war in which America had fought threw other countries and threw their arsenals. America mostly used containment rather then counter revolution during the cold war. The U.S used many ways to keep communism from spreading, for the fear of the welfare of democracy and another war from taking place. America was ready to preserve the welfare of …showed first 75 words of 374 total…

…showed last 75 words of 374 total…it been waiting for since the communist revolution in 1917 control of Eastern Europe. The president at that time Harry Truman was a policy of containment develops the Truman Doctrine in 1947, which was to provide economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents. In Truman he said this "totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want" , meaning they want more for the misery that they had from the Second World War.