President truman’s policy of containment was intended to launch the cold war with the ussr. eliminate all soviet satellite states. prove that communism was flawed. stop the spread of communism.

To stop the spread of communism.

President Truman believed that the American way of life was in danger of being overrun by communism, and also realized the US was in a competition Soviet Union. Truman phrases totalitarianism is what suggests that people living under it have little to no choice but to follow the government's oppressive wishes.