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Thus, blocking the expansion of the USSR and communism. It was originally devised by US diplomat and historian George F. Kennan, best known as âthe father of containmentâ. His writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of containment during the Truman Administration. American HistoryHistoryPolitical Facts.
Digital History ID 3403 An article in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, signed X, proposed that the West adopt a policy of containment toward the Soviet Union. The article's author, George Kennan, who set up the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1943, called on the United States to take steps to prevent Soviet expansion. He was convinced that if the Soviet Union failed to expand, its social system would eventually break down. The Containment Policy would adopt two approaches. One approach was military; the other was economic. In 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed a program to funnel American economic aid to Europe.