How Did The Truman Doctrine Cause Ww2

World War Two was one of the most gruesome wars of all time. Nazi Germany, Japan, and Italy known as the Axis powers fought against Britain, United States, Soviet Union, and France who were known as the Allied powers. This war was fought for many reasons and it prevented Adolf Hitler to expand and become world leader. Hitler’s death and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Japan caused the Axis powers to surrender the war. After WW2 there was a time where the Soviet Union and America had tension with each other, the cold war. This war was a clash between communism and capitalism and mutually assured destruction was one way that these counties would’ve approached the situation. This created lots of fear to people and countries because the technology both countries had at the time. The United
It first started with the idea of spreading communism around Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union was a supporter of communism and spreading that idea around would help them grow. The U.S.S.R. was slowly but surely able to have communism spread to countries and around the world. The Red Scare was a time that many feared of, it was the rise of communism and many counties did not want communism to spread. This lead America to stand up for its freedom to stop something they did not believe in. The Truman Doctrine was a policy which purpose was to halt the Soviet expansion during the Cold War. This was about how America would provide any type of help to countries that were trying to be taken over by communism. Truman stated in the doctrine “the United States could no longer stand by and allow the forcible expansion of Soviet totalitarianism into free, independent nations, because American national security now depended upon more than just the physical security of American territory.” (Truman Doctrine) This shows that America needs to defend its freedom because of the Soviets