The policy of containment involved taking a dispute to the edge of conflict to force the opposition to back down. believing that if one nation became Communist, so would its neighbors. stopping the spread of Communism beyond its 1947 borders.

How would europe benefit economically from greater unity

How did tyrants attempt to gain the approval of common citizens?

Which concept is plato expressing in the excerpt below? when men have both done and suffered tyranny, and have had experience of both . . they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither. . —plato, the republic: book ii