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The foreign policy of Isolationism was when the US decided not to make alliances with any other countries so they were free from taking action. Containment is way more different because its when the US was trying to prevent the spreading of communism in Eastern Europe and other countries being run by the Soviets.

Truman Doctrine

March 12, 1947

Policy to help countries resist communism

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Berlin Airlift

Jun 24, 1948 – May 12, 1949

First major international crisis of the Cold War. US supplied Western Berlin

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M.A.D

No Date

Military strategy in which full scale nuclear weapons are used against opposing sides.

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Marshall Plan

April 8, 1948

Americas plan to help Western Europe

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