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Cold War Pl The Containment Plan

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The most effective Cold War Plan was the Containment Plan. Some people believe that it was actually the Marshall plan or the deterrence plan. These plans are considered effective for the lives they saved, the safety they bring and the money for the government. Thus, the safest, most effective cold war plan was the Containment Plan.
Generally the cold war lasted from 1949-1991. Successful plan should be judged by the effectiveness in the 52 years of the cold war. To evaluate the effectiveness of the plan, one must focus on people in the US and Russia. Success in the Containment Plan is purely related to the safety and health of the people. Also, to evaluate a plan, it must show successful impact within the country. That is exactly what the Containment Plan did.
The success of the Containment Plan was measurable by the way the containment was a success to stop Russia at their tracks from advancing their communism all around Europe and farther. One example is when, “If the Soviet Union acquires control of one or more of these areas, then the US would have to deal with Russia and may have to go to war with them as well.”(Vursell. 1, Dec. 4, 1947) The Containment Plan made it more safe for US and many other countries. Now that we made alliances with other countries we stopped Russia from spreading into their own country trying to spread communism and stopped Russia from growing into a huge monster of a country as well. This helps show that the Containment Plan is most effective

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