History Brief: The Truman Doctrine
November 22, 2016
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-President Harry Truman's 1947 speech concerning Greece and Turkey. Both countries were experiencing economic and political turmoil, and Truman concluded that the US should do everything within its power to assist these nations.
-Truman's fears that if Greece and Turkey were left to their own accord, they would become communist nations.
-Truman's belief that communism must be halted and not allowed to spread to other nations.
-Truman's speech may have sparked the Cold War.
-Truman established the Truman Doctrine as America's policy towards communism.
-The Truman Doctrine's policy of containment.
-The US would not try to eliminate communism, but instead, simply confine it to the nations where communism already existed.
-The Domino Theory, which suggested that if one nation in a region fell to communism, nearby nations could fall as well, similar to dominoes falling upon each other.
-Greece and Turkey receiving more than $400 million to help rebuild their economy and firmly establish their government.
-In 1948, the Marshall Plan gave more than $12 billion to aid in rebuilding Western European nations rebuild after the destruction of World War II.
-The Marshall Plan was devised to help Western European nations resist communism and prevent them from falling under the influence of the Soviet Union.
-The Truman Doctrine and the policy of containment were also responsible for the US entry into multiple military conflicts throughout the 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s.
-The Truman Doctrine attempted to prevent the spread of communism by sending troops overseas.
-Containment proved successful for South Korea.
-Containment failed in Vietnam.
-Containment continued to be one of the dominant forms of dealing with the communist threat throughout the remainder of the Cold War.
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