This is about communities - forest communities and people communities. Perhaps the most substantial exercise in bridge-building in the world is the joint project of European integration spearheaded by Jean Monnet after the two bloodiest wars in world history.
containment(noun) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully. containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975.
In the case of the United States the policy was known as containment. Simply put it was the goal of the US to contain the spread of Communism. The specifics and implementation of this policy as well as the Soviet response will be the focal point of todays lesson. I. Post WWII Foreign Policy.