2. Declare war on communism directly, such as Truman Doctrine.
3, through loans, aid and other ways to promote their own ideology, such as Marshall Plan.
Economically, the United States took various measures to suppress the Soviet Union. First, implement export control. Second, strengthen the control of high-tech transfer. Third, control the international crude oil price.
Militarily, the United States formed a deterrent to the Soviet Union through nuclear superiority and military alliance, and increased the arms race to bring down the Soviet Union. After Truman, the Eisenhower administration pursued a "large-scale retaliation strategy" in an attempt to "contain" the so-called "communist expansion" by developing nuclear weapons and establishing a military alliance manipulated by the United States around the Soviet Union.
6. Ideologically, the United States launched a propaganda offensive and psychological warfare in order to subvert the socialist system of the Soviet Union. Psychological warfare is called "the fourth weapon", which is as important as political, economic and military factors in foreign policy.
Extended data
1. The Cold War brought long-term opposition and confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union and between the East and the West, hindered the development of global integration, and also split Germany and North Korea, triggering a local war.
2. In the cold war environment, because the United States and the Soviet Union are evenly matched and both sides are trying their best to avoid war, a new large-scale war (World War III) has been avoided for half a century.
3. In the long-term coexistence, countries with different social systems learn from each other to varying degrees for internal adjustment and reform, which has promoted the overall development of the world.
4. Facing the bipolar confrontation, developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America formed the Non-Aligned Movement (Group of 77), which gradually developed and grew, and the third world rose accordingly.
5. It promoted the formation of multipolarization of the world pattern and the development of the third scientific and technological revolution.
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