Can you remember the three major elements of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War? Use a superior show of force to bluff the enemy into backing down.

Brinkmanship is the strategy of pushing a dangerous confrontation to the edge of conflict, using the threat of superior force to pressure an opponent into backing down. Containment aimed to stop the spread of communism, while the domino theory predicted that one country's fall to communism could lead neighboring countries to follow.

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