Evaluate the containment policy in Europe from 1945-1950

The US used numerous methods of containing communism in the 1940s, including economic, military, and political, which were generally successful. Communism did not spread to Western Europe with the use of these methods , but the US was not able to prevent the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe in by the late 1940s. Though no country fell to communism under the Marshall Plan, and the US prevented communist takeover of Berlin in the Berlin Crisis, these …

…separating East and West Germany, and Communism did not spread beyond these borders. From these aspects one can assess that the US generally had some success in their foreign policy of containment, but is limited to Western Europe. From 1945 to 1949, the USSR gradually took over seven Eastern European countries without any confrontation from the US. When the US did confront the Soviet Union, though, as in the Berlin Crisis, the outcome was a favourable success.