positive and negative effects of the United States foreign policy’s efforts to root out communist influences in the decade following World War II.

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The positive and negative effects of the United States foreign policy’s efforts to root out communist influences in the decade following World War II are the following.

The positive side is that during the Cold War years, the United States federal government tried to keep communism off the United States territory and instilled the foreign policy of containment to avoid or limit the spread of communism around the world.

For instance, President Harry S. Truman did everything that was in his hands to stop the spread of communism when the Soviet Union tried to spread its totalitarian ideas in many parts of the world such as in North Korea, North Vietnam, and Cuba.

On the negative side, that communist persecution created fear in the United States that turned into psychosis during the Red Scare times, a period in US history when Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy accused many members of the US federal government and the military to have ties with communists.

McCarthy just accused but never showed any evidence.

relations between the soviet union and the united states were driven by a complex interplay of ideological, political, and economic factors, which led to shifts between cautious cooperation and often bitter superpower rivalry over the years. the distinct differences in the political systems of the two countries often prevented them from reaching a mutual understanding on key policy issues and even, as in the case of the cuban missile crisis, brought them to the brink of war.

the united states government was initially hostile to the soviet leaders for taking russia out of world war i and was opposed to a state ideologically based on communism. although the united states embarked on a famine relief program in the soviet union in the early 1920s and american businessmen established commercial ties there during the period of the new economic policy (1921–29), the two countries did not establish diplomatic relations until 1933. by that time, the totalitarian nature of joseph stalin's regime presented an insurmountable obstacle to friendly relations with the west. although world war ii brought the two countries into alliance, based on the common aim of defeating nazi germany, the soviet union's aggressive, antidemocratic policy toward eastern europe had created tensions even before the war ended.

the fact that could also be added to column b is that during world war ii, specifically between the years 1941 and 1945, japan expanded its territory towards the indonesian territory in what was known later as part of the "pacific war". in that time, japan could conquer the philipines, singapore,   borneo, central java, malang, cebu, sumatra and various other islands of the area, therefore expanding its territory for a brief period of time.