jul 20, 1947 - Containment (April- July 1947)
Description:
- kennan's expectation: ussr system will collapse so give it space to fall-kennan's containment: limited to industrialized world
-meet communists wherever they are/ deterrence
-revised to military lens later to increase defense spending, troops size, build up army, assistance to allied and r+d to hydrogen bombs (NSC 68)
Added to timeline:
Date:
jul 20, 1947
Now
~ 78 years ago