The US used numerous methods of containing communism in the 1940s, including economic, military, and political, which were generally successful. Communism did not spread to Western Europe with the use of these methods , but the US was not able to prevent the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe in by the late 1940s. Though no country fell to communism under the Marshall Plan, and the US prevented communist takeover of Berlin in the Berlin Crisis, these events are only in relation to Western Europe.
Economically, the US made use of the Marshall Plan, ratified in 1947, to provide aid to European countries. …
