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The Long Telegram was a review of how the Soviet Union saw the world. The Clifford-Elsey Report took those facts and interpreted how they affected the world and what the United States should do about it. The X Article took the information presented in the two prior reports and constructed a.
Study QuestionsA. What were the arguments for and against containment and the Truman Doctrine? Why did Kennan think that a political regime that thought it had to destroy the United States in order to survive could be contained? If the Soviet Union could be contained, did that mean it did not have the character that Kennan ascribed to it?B. Compare the documents below with those used to justify American involvement in the Philippines. Do the documents show the same understanding of America’s place in the world and how it should deal with other countries and foreign populations?C. Do the arguments for and against containment of the Soviet Union recall earlier arguments for and against the containment of slavery?
How do the arguments for and against containment and the Truman Doctrine differ from the arguments made about the war with Mexico? Footnotes. The Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), was the precursor to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. They billed themselves as the people’s party; the word Bolshevik literally means “the majority,” in Russian. Bornhom is an island in the Baltic Sea east of Copenhagen and south of Sweden. The Communist International or Comintern (1919–1943) advocated worldwide communism. Through the Comintern the Soviet Union controlled communist parties in other countries, supporting them financially, including the Communist Party of the United States.
1917–1922, a conflict following the Russian Revolution between the Bolsheviks, who had seized power, and those who opposed them.