Who was George Kennan ?

Question

How did he impact on American foreign policy

Answer 1

He was a diplomat in the Truman Administration, the inspiration for the "Truman Doctrine" of containing communist expansion, and therefor sometimes called the "father of containment".  This was the basis of US foreign policy from the Truman administration until the end of the Cold War forty years later.

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