Multiple choice

Which statement best describes the United States’ policy of containment?

  1. The goal was not to eliminate communism,but to contain it

  2. keep Ho Chi Minh locked up in a secure container

  3. keep President Ngo Dinh Diem locked up in a secure container

  4. Contain, or limit, our spending on the Vietnam War

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Explanation

Containment was a U.S. foreign policy strategy intended to prevent the spread of communism, rather than attempting to eliminate it where it already existed.

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