The policy of containment involved

Containment was the U.S. policy of preventing Communism from spreading to additional countries. It aimed to hold the line at the areas under Communist control in 1947, rather than force opponents to back down through brinkmanship or predict that neighboring nations would fall in sequence through the domino theory. Therefore, the correct choice is stopping the spread of Communism beyond its 1947 borders.

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