I might not be right but it was that the colonies should break from Britain and form a new government elected by the common people, basically Britain should break connections with the King
The Cold War Containment policy was a complete bust because we pour money into failing countries so they there economy was strong enough to where they wouldn't have radical thoughts of communism this was referred to as the Truman doctrine and then the Eisenhower doctrine that funded the middle east. Then we went into the police action "war" in Korea so that the domino effect wouldn't allow other nations to fall to communism
to get away from it to get away from it