This sums up the ideas of containment. It is a telegram that was widely published.

Documentary record of the U.S. policy of containment as articulated by the official historian of the U.S. Department of State.

This site discusses America's post-World War II foreign policy in outline form.

PBS profiles the life of American diplomat George F. Kennan, whose ideas about the expansionist ambitions of the Soviet Union shaped the U.S. policy toward Communist countries known as containment.

This site from Fordham University contains actual letters between the United Nations and the USSR. These letters are attempts to reach a resolution in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This is a speech given by President Eisenhower during the last days of his administration. In it, he cautions against the growing power and influence of the American military-industrial complex. A great primary source that still contains...

Discussion of the Truman Doctrine that pledged to support other countries in their struggle against communism, the key element being the policy of containment.