Base your answer to question 36 on the passage
below and on your knowledge of social studies.
…balanced against this are the facts that russia,
as opposed to the western world in general, is still
by far the weaker party, that soviet policy is
highly flexible, and that soviet society may well
contain deficiencies which will eventually weaken
its own total potential. this would of itself warrant
the united states entering with reasonable
confidence upon a policy of firm containment,
designed to confront the russians with unalterable
counter-force at every point where they show
signs of encroaching upon the interests of a peaceful
and stable world….
— george kennan, “the sources of soviet conduct,”
foreign affairs, july 1947
in this passage, george kennan is suggesting that
the united states should
(1) abandon western europe to soviet control
(2) launch an attack on the soviet union
(3) pursue policies to limit the spread of soviet
influence
(4) admit that the soviet union posed no real
threat to the united states