Offsets began after World War II, based on the theory that co-production agreements were needed to help European countries rebuild military-industrial bases and resist communism.

Among his chief concerns were civil defense and resisting domestic communism.

The scenes depicts allegedly "false" religions showing e.g. self-mutilating Hindu priests and makes the claim that Hindus, Buddhists and adherents of other religions could easily be converted into communists whereas only true Christianity is strong enough to resist communism.

In 1966 an agreement with the Vatican, fostered in part by the death in 1960 of anti-communist archbishop of Zagreb Aloysius Stepinac and shifts in the church's approach to resisting communism originating in the Second Vatican Council, accorded new freedom to the Yugoslav Roman Catholic Church, particularly to catechize and open seminaries.

The assistant chief of the Division of Eastern European Affairs in the State Department, Stevens, argued for rearming in Korea as a sign that the United States would resist communism:

Under the Truman Doctrine, the United States was prepared to send any money, equipment, or military force to countries that were threatened by the communist government, thereby offering assistance to those countries resisting communism.

The Truman Doctrine focused on the containment of communism by providing assistance to countries resisting communism in Europe.

The Eisenhower Doctrine was focused upon providing both military and economic assistance to nations resisting communism in the Middle East, and by increasing the flow of trade from the United States into Latin America.

Intervention was necessary because the United States could not abandon a nation resisting communism.

In June 1941, Wang gave a public radio address from Tokyo in which he praised Japan, affirmed China's submission to it, criticised the Kuomintang government, and pledged to work with the Empire of Japan to resist communism and Western imperialism.