Containment Can't Contain Nerves

Due to America's intense fear of Communism, it was obvious that the government needed to make some changes in order to put Americans at ease. Officials decided it was time to do something about the Soviet's threat and on February 1946, George F. Kennan proposed the policy of containment. Containment was an effort to stop Soviet's threat in its tracks by creating alliances and supporting weaker nations in return for their promise of anti-communist beliefs. Americans wanted to keep Communism in the Soviet Union to prevent its spread to other countries and to accomplish this goal containment was necessary.
Adopting containment as United State's foreign policy seemed to make the Cold War real and not a fear or figment of one's imagination. The foreign policy made tensions rise drastically during the Cold War.