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In what ways did the administration of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon continue the containment policy of President Truman? A basic fear of Americans is toward the foreigners, the people who are different. This has been appeared often in our history in such occurrences as the Know Noting Party, the KKK, the Palmer Raids, and the containment policy. The first three were domestic developments directed out of fear against people and ideas that were different. The foreign policy known as “containment,?however, developed in the Truman years following the ideas expressed in the famous “X?article in Foreign Affairs, reflecting the fears of the American people and government that the communist Soviet Union was a threat to America. The foreign aid program was given to make underdeveloped countries capable of resisting the advances of communism. Foreign aid was first used by President Truman and later by the other four presidents. The containment policy held that the west should meet every communist move with equal pressure. It became clear that Europe would have to be rebuilt if it were to help in applying this pressure.
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