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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.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
"Stopping the spread of Communism beyond its 1947 borders."

Containment was the Cold War policy (articulated by George F. Kennan and adopted in the Truman Doctrine) aimed at preventing the expansion of Soviet/Communist influence, not brinkmanship (option 1) or the domino theory (option 2).