With a new war on the horizon, America has begun to ignore some of its values ​​and embrace new ones. After the end of World War II, an iron curtain fell over Europe, on one side the capitalist nation of America and on the other the communist nation of Soviet Russia. Due to the ideological differences between these two superpowers, America adopted a new value that would guide its foreign policy for decades; containment. The value of containment, which according to George Kennan can be described as "long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of [Soviet] expansionist tendencies", was first introduced into American foreign policy through the Truman Doctrine in 1947. the value that motivated American foreign policy after World War II, as evidenced by the division of Berlin, the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam. Immediately after World War II, a new war began, driven by the policy of containment. The division of Berlin was the first demonstration of this war. America's unwavering determination not to back down and allow the Soviet Union to gain more territory. Three years after Berlin was divided into west and east, a blockade was established by the Soviets with the aim of absorbing the capitalist outpost into the communist territory surrounding it. America, now following the containment policy, could not allow its western outpost to fall into Soviet hands. So, even though the East offered to provide the West with the basic necessities necessary for its survival, America instead created an airlift to keep the West under its control, ignoring it. the human rights of Berliners. Despite the obvious lack of Berliners “Every now and then, someone was in the right place at the right time, and an American soldier was squeezing a fruit in the middle of a paper..... . Bay of Pigs Invasion and Vietnam. At first, this policy of containment worked very successfully, but over time, America gradually lost sight of its core values. As a result of these actions that caused the deaths of countless innocent civilians, "Lt. Calley and a crying rifleman named Paul D. Meadle - the same soldier who had given the children candy before shooting them - pushed the prisoners in the ditch. ...people were diving on top of each other; mothers were trying to protect their children” (Zinn 469). The United States government must not allow one value to reign supreme over foreign policy. Rather, each value should receive equal attention when making foreign policy decisions. During the Cold War, America allowed its actions abroad to rely solely on the policy of containment, resulting in