Discussion On George Kennan's Containment Theory And Strategy Of Containment Of The US Government

During the Cold War,the Strategy of Containment against the Soviet Union isthe core of American foreign policy. And then George Frost Kennan becomes famousfor firstly putting forward the Theory of Containment. This paper presents a morecomprehensive and systematic analysis of the Theory of Containment and the Strate-gies of Containment.Any kind of thoughts or theories has its social backgrounds and causes. GeorgeKennan coming up with his famous theory of containment is benefit from his earlylife and former career greatly. At the very beginning of the Cold War,he puts for-ward the Theory in three continued articles and makes a great effect on Truman'spolicy. From then on, American governments'policies against the Soviet Union arecalled the Strategy of containment. Although there are some changes among them,their goals are consistent.George Kennan develops and improves his Theory from time to time, and hisgoal is consistent with American governments',but there are still some remarked dis-tinctions between them. They take different measures to contain the Soviet Union.Kennan's theory and the governments' strategies sometimes tend to be the same andsometimes to part. Only when the Soviet Union is destroyed,do they come to thesame destination.