Containment is a U.S. policy that tries to stop the spread of Communism by "containing" it to the areas that it has already spread to. This policy was used after WWll and just before Cold War tensions started to heat up between the U.S. and the Soviet Union because America wanted to stop Communist Russia's influence on the rest of Europe.
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during world war ii, the last attempt by the germans to stop the allied advance on the western front took place at : the battle of the burge.
This battle actually caught the allied forces on the western front by surprise and caused massive casualties on the side of allied forces. But Germany also experienced massive depletion in both military men and supplies which actually leave their last defense become vulnerable and eventually lead to their defeat.
