What was “containment”?

Containment was the U.S. policy of preventing communism and Soviet influence from spreading beyond the areas already under Soviet control after World War II. It aimed to keep the Soviet Union within its expanded postwar borders, rather than attack it or gradually remove it from Eastern Europe. Therefore, the correct choice is A, “a policy for keeping the Soviet Union within its expanded postwar borders.”

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