In 1947, President Harry S. Truman of the United States, in his bid to prevent or stop the encroachment of communism, pledged that the United States would give a helping hand to any nation resisting communism, by providing political, economic and military operations. Thus, this policy of containment is termed as Truman's Doctrine.
However, there is a divisive concern within the Truman administration as to whether ""containment"" should be a confrontation approach or a cooperation approach.
A policy adopted by US in the cold war, it was aimed at containing the influence of Soviet Union and communism around the globe. Because they were seeing soviet's expanding influence as a challenge to their hegemony. US used various strategies to contain it varying from creating a buffer for Soviet, and taking major states of the world under confidence
