The Truman Doctrine: The Rise Of Communism

The first ever speech about the Truman Doctrine began on 12 March 1947, His speech is very famous for the outstanding meaning it brings to all people. As the New York Times reported, “Although the president refrained from mentioning the Soviet Union by name, there could be no mistaking his identification of the Communist state as the source of much of the unrest throughout the world.”1 The Soviet Union and the United States were allies in the World War II. But after those years things seemed to come crumbling down. He claimed that the power of Communism was growing “The peoples of a number of countries of the world have recently had totalitarian regimes forced upon them against their will. The Government of the United States has made frequent protests against coercion and intimidation, in violation of the Yalta agreement, in Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria.
Truman asked for $400 million in military and economic expenses for Greece and Turkey and to establish a doctrine. The Truman administration believed that both Turkey and Greece were both threatened by communism. The Truman Doctrine had been providing and helping Greece and Turkey since the end of World War II. President Truman declared, "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." The Truman Doctrine was ¨a promise that the United States would do whatever was necessary both economically and militarily to contain the spread of communism around the