Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Sections 28.2, 29.1, 30.3, 31.3
• Lesson
• Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook)

Initial Post Instructions
Pick three (3) of the following American Foreign policies:

• Marshall Plan
• Berlin Airlift
• Containment
• Anti-Communist Freedom Fighters
• Vietnam (conflict) War
• Détente’
• SALT I & SALT II
• Camp David Accords
• Strategic Defense Initiative (nicknamed “Star Wars”)

Then, address the following for your selections:

• Explain how each of your choices was an effective policy to thwart international communist expansion.
• Based on your selections, analyze if the United States should have feared international communist subversion during the Cold War era (1945-1991).
• This is the link to the text book.OpenStax. (2019). U.S. history. OpenStax CNX. Retrieved from https://cnx.org/contents/p7ovuIkl@6.18:gMXC1GEM@7/IntroductionLinks to an external site.

Answer preview

The American foreign policies during the cold war sought to limit International communist expansion through preventing communist being rampant. Cold war entails the long struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union on ideological and technological supremacy (Openstax, 2019).  Among the policies is the containment policy which sought to put pressure on the Soviet Union on spreading communism. The United States ability to quickly recover from the World war adversaries shows that the states should not have feared any subversions of the international communist expansion. American foreign policies` effectiveness on preventing international communist development is influenced by the impacts of the foreign policies on communist and anti-communist allies.

Effectiveness of Foreign policies to Thwart International Communist Expansion

Containment Policy

The containment policy sought to limit…