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What was “containment”?

a policy for keeping the Soviet Union within its expanded postwar borders

a plan for the United States to attack the Soviet Union through Asia

a way to gradually push the Soviet Union out of Eastern Europe

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
"a policy for keeping the Soviet Union within its expanded postwar borders"

Containment was the U.S. strategy (associated with George Kennan) to prevent further Soviet expansion of influence and communism, not to roll back existing Soviet control in Eastern Europe or to launch attacks.