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Original scan of George Kennan's 'Long Telegram', on the Wilson Center Digital Archive, retrieved June 3, 2022 "The Novikov Telegram. Russian response to Kennan" Stalin's warning for the future CNN short on Stalin's February 9, 1946 speech, featuring an interview with Kennan.
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War.
George F. Kennan is best known as the author of The Long Telegram and the X Article, and by extension the author of America's containment policy toward the Soviet Union. Ambassador Kennan, together with Wilson Center Director James Billington and historian S. Frederick Starr, initiated the establishment of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow ...
George F. Kennan published his doctrine of containment in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs. The journal rose to its greatest prominence after World War II when foreign relations became central to United States politics, and the United States became a powerful actor on the global scene.
Harriman served as ambassador to the Soviet Union until January 1946. When he returned to the United States, he worked hard to get George Kennan's Long Telegram into wide distribution. [13] Kennan's analysis, which generally accorded with Harriman's, became the cornerstone of Truman's Cold War strategy of containment.
In February 1946, George F. Kennan, an American diplomat in Moscow, sent his famed "Long Telegram", which predicted the Soviets would only respond to force and that the best way to handle them would be through a long-term strategy of containment; that is, stopping their geographical expansion.
Kennan sent the telegram at 9:00 pm Moscow time (1:00 pm EST), and it was received in Washington at 3:52 EST. [57] The first attacks in the Texarkana Moonlight Murders took place when a couple on a date, 25-year-old Jimmy Hollis and his girlfriend, Mary Larey, were attacked and seriously injured. Both survived, but six other people would be ...
Project Solarium was an American national-level exercise in strategy and foreign policy design convened by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the summer of 1953. It was intended to produce consensus among senior officials in the national security community on the most effective strategy for responding to Soviet expansionism in the wake of the early Cold War.