Containment and Adaptation: The Evolution of U.S. Cold War Policy from Truman to Bush

Directions: Write a 6-7-page paper on one of the following topics and submit it by midnight (23:59) on Friday, November 8th, 2024. An electronic copy should also be submitted as a standard email attachment to an email addressed to *************************. The format may be Word or PDF, but the paper should not be submitted in OneNote or through any delivery means other than as a standard attachment to an email. The paper should be double-spaced, 11-or-12-point font with one-inch margins, and annotation should use footnotes (preferably Chicago style). There should be a bibliography. Your paper will be graded for (1) content, (2) the quality of argumentation, (3) the quality of writing, and (4) the use of course material (required texts; course Canvas readings). USE COURSE READINGS. DO NOT GO “FISHING” ON THE INTERNET. American policy toward the USSR, the PRC and the Soviet bloc during the Cold War broadly pursued the objective of “containment,” as that objective was defined by George Kennan at the end of World War II and subsequently modified by the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush ’41 administrations. Through these decades much of U.S. Cold War policy could be summed up in the three words “containment through deterrence,” though American foreign policy was not always so reflexively defensive as that phrase implies. Beneath the broad umbrella of containment, U.S. foreign and security policy underwent several doctrinal shifts between 1945 and the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. What were these policy shifts, as explained in Hook & Spanier’s American Foreign Policy since World War II and in your reading of relevant Canvas sources? How did the doctrinal justifications for U.S. Cold War policy evolve and change from the 1950s to the 60s, 70s and 80s? Define “doctrine.” Why does doctrine matter? Cite specific events as you support your argument. This is the prompt for the original paper. I have sent all the comments left by the professor on the paper. You can use all my sources in the paper, he said that was ok. The paper needs to be rewritten to make more sense and sound better. Feel free to reorganize it as well let me know if you need anything else.