Briefly describe the policy of containment in the cold warWhat was Containment pertaining to the cold war

Containment was the policy adopted by the United States at
the end of World War II to stop the spread of Communism beyond those areas where it then
existed.

During the spring of 1945, the Soviet Union set up
puppet governments in Romania and Poland in clear violation of the Yalta agreements.
Stalin justified this by claiming that the U.S. had negotiated German surrender behind
his back, and German forces were now concentrated against the Soviet Union. Later, the
Soviets refused to withdraw from East Germany, and set up a puppet government there
also. Stalin stated in 1946 that peace was impossible under the present Capitalist
development of the world economy." It became apparent that the Soviets were intent on
world domination and the destruction of Western capitalism. George F. Kennan, former
ambassador to Moscow, wrote an anonymous article for a magazine in which he stated that
the Soviets intended to

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fill every nook and cranny available in the basin
of world power

He stated that
the United States policy must be a

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 long term, patient but firm and vigilant
containment of Russian expansive tendencies…. Such a policy has
nothing to do with outward histrionics: with threats or blustering or superfluous
gestures of outward
toughness."

Thus was born the
policy of Containment.