1946-February-22-The Long Telegram is received from George Kennan, this was the first skeletal design of containment. The telegram was over 8,000 words long, hence the name The Long Telegram. This telegram stated that the USSR viewed any system of socialism and social democracy as non-compatible in the world. It also stated that the USSR saw itself at war with capitalism. Kennan thought that the USSR could not stay peacefully in a long term coexistent with the capitalistic world. 1947-March-The Truman Doctrine policy is established, giving Greece and Turkey economic and military aid. It sent $400 million to these two countries. Greece was once supported by Great Britain but the British could not support them for long. This is one major reason this policy was set up. The policy soon died out, leaving these two weakened countries to fend for themselves, opening their government to communism. 1949-April- 4th-NATO is signed. North Atlantic Treaty Organization created an alliance between all those that signed the treaty. The founding countries were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, and the United States of America. October-1st-The Peoples Republic of China falls to communism. This helped power communistic countries and gave them more reason to continue spreading their government type. Also, China served as a base for communists, and supplied many resources.
Result
This period of time helped implement a foundation on which to build Containment. This point in time also marked the entry of the U.S. into Containment of Communistic affairs. It also showed how quickly Communism can spread like an epidemic to other developing and developed nations.