You mean the Cold War? Containing communism wasn't a priomary goal of World War 2.
The Native Americans didn't think any land belonged to anyone, not even tribes.
During the Age of Discovery (also known as the Age of Exploration), which took place from around the 15th Century until about the 18th Century, the following explorers took respective routes to observe the paired locations:
Christopher Columbus to the Americas
Corte Real to Newfoundland
Da Gama to India
Cabral to Brazil
Tasman to New Zealand
Magellan to Straits of Magellan
Janszoon to Australia
Balboa to the Pacific Ocean
James Cook to Hawaii and Antarctica
It depends on what you mean by socialization but i believe the answer would be true.
President Jefferson had doubts because he was unsure if the purchase of land without the agreement of the legislative branch was constitutional