The recommendation provided in the second paragraph is best explained in the context of which of the following historical situations in the aftermath of the Second World War? The emergence of fascist states engaged in territorial expansion in Asia and Africa The implementation of genocidal policies by totalitarian states The creation of secret competing alliance systems by European powers The attempts by Soviet officials to establish ideological ties with newly independent states
The recommendation provided in the second paragraph is best explained in the context of which of the following historical situations in the aftermath of the Second World War? The emergence of fascist states engaged in territorial expansion in Asia and Africa The implementation of genocidal policies by totalitarian states The creation of secret competing alliance systems by European powers The attempts by Soviet officials to establish ideological ties with newly independent states
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Transcribed Image Text:**Content Title: Analysis of U.S. Policy Towards Soviet Russia After World War II**
**Transcription:**
"In international relations, the structure of power is committed to the perfection of the dictatorship and to maintaining the concept that Russia is in a state of siege, with an enemy that lies just beyond the walls. This mentality has large implications for Russia's international conduct. Moscow assumes that the aims of the capitalist world are antagonistic to the Soviet regime. However, the Kremlin is under no compulsion to accomplish its aims too little in a hurry. If it finds unassailable barriers in its path, it accepts them and accommodates itself to them. There is no trace of any feeling in Soviet psychology that good must be done in a hurry.
*Under these circumstances, it is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of patient and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. Soviet economic power is not to be held in awe. It can lift certain formidable achievements, and its economy is pretty spotty and uneven. It is difficult to see how the deficiencies of the Soviet economic system can be corrected in any reasonable length of time, without major incentives and the novelty of fear and penal compulsion. And as long as this process is underway, Russia will remain an economically vulnerable and important nation, capable of enduring to bargain with the West and to extract real evidence of material power and prosperity. Indeed, it is the strong belief of this writer that Soviet power bears within it the seeds of its own decay, and that the sprouting of these seeds is well advanced.*
- George F. Kennan, United States diplomat to the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946, article submitted anonymously to an academic journal devoted to the conduct of foreign policy, published in Washington
**Question 1:**
The recommendation provided in the second paragraph is best explained in the context of which of the following historical situations in the aftermath of the Second World War?
- The emergence of fascist states engaged in territorial expansion in Asia and Africa
- The implementation of genocidal policies by totalitarian states
- The creation of secret competing alliance systems by European powers
- The attempts by Soviet officials to establish ideological ties with newly independent states
**Question 2:**
Which of the following best explains the purpose of the arguments expressed in the passage?
- (Options not provided in the screenshot.)"
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