Daily Quiz for August 20, 2008

George Kennan. In his July 1947 article &#171The Sources of Soviet Conflict» in the quarterly Foreign Affairs, which he signed &#171X,» George Kennan set out the U.S. policy of containment of the Soviet Union. Kennan, born in Milwaukee on February 16, 1904, stated in the article: &#171It is clear the main element of any U.S. policy towards the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies?»