The Truman Doctrine And How It Influenced American Foreign Policy
Describe and discuss the Truman Doctrine and give one example of how it influenced American foreign policy.
On March 12, 1947 before a joint session of congress President Harry S Truman recommended the program of economic and military assistance to Greece and Turkey that became known as the Truman Doctrine.
When in February 1947, Great Britain announced that they can no longer help Greece to fight against the communist rebels, President Harry Truman became worried that this will lead to expansion of communism in more countries.
Thus, President Harry S Truman and his advisers agreed on it’s now US’s turn to take action and control the situation so that communism should not take over of more countries.
In his very famous …show more content…
Truman March 12, 1947 [1]
Critics have called the Truman Doctrine the “first shot of the cold war”, a global license for American imperialism; an exaggerated response to an imagined communist menace that scared Americans with rhetoric, a reactionary policy that placed the United States on the side opposite freedom and social, political and economic reforms, Proof of an “arrogance of power” that helped led the United States into Vietnam. [2]
The main reason or in other words the hidden reason behind the Truman Doctrine was to stop expansion of Soviet Union/ communism beyond the border that it already had reached in Central and Eastern Europe.
President Truman by helping Greece and Turkey which at that time were facing problems by the communists (aided by Communist-controlled Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania) wanted to frighten the Soviet Union. A failure in Greece and Turkey would encourage Soviet Union to expand communism and would open their door toward Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Western Europe. This way Greece and Turkey at that time had became the focal point of the Cold
On March 12, 1947 before a joint session of congress President Harry S Truman recommended the program of economic and military assistance to Greece and Turkey that became known as the Truman Doctrine.
When in February 1947, Great Britain announced that they can no longer help Greece to fight against the communist rebels, President Harry Truman became worried that this will lead to expansion of communism in more countries.
Thus, President Harry S Truman and his advisers agreed on it’s now US’s turn to take action and control the situation so that communism should not take over of more countries.
In his very famous …show more content…
Truman March 12, 1947 [1]
Critics have called the Truman Doctrine the “first shot of the cold war”, a global license for American imperialism; an exaggerated response to an imagined communist menace that scared Americans with rhetoric, a reactionary policy that placed the United States on the side opposite freedom and social, political and economic reforms, Proof of an “arrogance of power” that helped led the United States into Vietnam. [2]
The main reason or in other words the hidden reason behind the Truman Doctrine was to stop expansion of Soviet Union/ communism beyond the border that it already had reached in Central and Eastern Europe.
President Truman by helping Greece and Turkey which at that time were facing problems by the communists (aided by Communist-controlled Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania) wanted to frighten the Soviet Union. A failure in Greece and Turkey would encourage Soviet Union to expand communism and would open their door toward Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Western Europe. This way Greece and Turkey at that time had became the focal point of the Cold