Flexible Response, also called Flexible Deterrent Options (FDO), U.S. defense strategy in which a wide range of diplomatic, political, economic, and military options are used to deter an enemy attack. The term flexible response first appeared in U.S. General Maxwell D.

He suggested that he would “unleash” the Nationalist Chinese forces on Taiwan against communist China, and he sent only slightly veiled messages that he would use any force necessary (including the use of nuclear weapons) to bring the war to an end unless peace negotiations began to move forward.

In his “Atoms for Peace” speech before the United Nations General Assembly on December 8, 1953, President Eisenhower sought to address the perilous balance that resulted from nuclear power resting in the hands of not only the United States and its allies, but also the Soviet Union at the dawn of the Cold War.

One source of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was the fate of Eastern Europe. The United States was committed to free and democratic elections in Eastern Europe, while the Soviet Union wanted a buffer zone of friendly countries in Eastern Europe to protect it from future attacks from the West.

Which of the following is a source of the conflict between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)? America had atomic bombs and was obviously willing to use them. there can be no peaceful coexistence between capitalism and socialism. requiring annual military service for American men.

The root cause of the U.S. containment policy was the growing appeal of communism throughout parts of Europe, Asia, and later, Latin America.

The goals of containment were to keep communism from spreading to other countries. The truman doctrine was the policy of the US to support free peoples who are resisting soviet pressures to become communist.