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1. Who was George Kennan? Explain how the Truman Doctrine,the Marshall plan, NATO, support for the Korean War were based on the policy of containment. Explain what each policy was in your answer. What did that policy concede to the Soviets? How did NSC-68 refine the doctrine?

2. Discuss the steps Truman tried to further civil rights for African Americans. Why was he unsuccessful for a comprehensive Civil Rights Bill? Discuss the factors that made possible the rise of the civil rights movement and the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. How did his strategy differ from that of the NAACP? Was King more in the tradition of Booker T. Washington or W. E. B. Du Bois? What role did Eisenhower play in the 1957 Little Rock Incident?

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Who was George Kennan?
The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall plan, NATO, support for the Korean War were based
on the policy of containment.
What each policy was in your answer.
Concede to the Soviets
How did NSC-68 refine the doctrine?
2.
The steps Truman tried to further civil rights for African Americans.
Why was he unsuccessful for a comprehensive Civil Rights Bill?
Discuss the factors that made possible the rise of the civil rights movement and the
emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. How did his strategy differ from that of the
NAACP? Was King more in the tradition of Booker T. Washington or W. E. B. Du Bois?
What role did Eisenhower play in the 1957 Little Rock Incident?
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Containment Policy

George Kennan was the most prominent Foreign Service officer in the United States. He
was the founder of the containment policy, which had a crucial strategy of shaping U.S. diplomacy,
especially during the cold war (Melvyn, 2019). Kennan was the second person to be in the U.S.
embassy, which was located in Moscow after World War II. At one time, he was elected as the
head of the policy planning staff. He wrote the “Long Telegram” in which he explored the Soviet
viewpoint and examined the Kremlin’s perspective policies. He also gathered some lesson, which
he wanted the policymakers to know. He had some opinions that American’s commitments and
plans concerning the postwar world were grounded on the risky misleading of intentions
personality and political condition of the soviet leadership (Melvyn, 2019). According to his view,
the le...


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