The Truman Doctrine and the Development of American Foreign Policy during the Cold War On March 12‚ 1947‚ President Harry S. Truman defined United States foreign policy in the context of its new role as a world superpower. Many historians consider his speech to Congress as the words that officially started the Cold War. The Truman Doctrine was a major break from U.S. historical trends of isolationist foreign policy. His speech led to the Cold War policy of containment. Moreover‚ it served as a
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THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE During the Cold War‚ most U.S. presidents came up with policies also known as “doctrines” to help remember who stood for what. In this report I will be summarizing a situation that required U.S. diplomatic efforts during President Harry Truman time; explicate the diplomatic doctrine the president followed; describing the effects of this diplomatic efforts for the U.S. and other countries; assess the advantages and disadvantages of the particular doctrine that followed. In February
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Daniel Perez December 1‚ 2012 U.S. History Truman Doctrine World War II was a brutal international war that included the great powers of the world which are claimed to be The United States‚ Germany‚ USSR‚ Great Britain‚ Italy and Japan. The war lasted 6 long years‚ but in 1945 Germany and Japan both surrendered to The United States therefore terminating the devastating war. This drastic defeat resulted in The United States and the USSR to emerge as the super powers of the world‚ which then
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Truman Doctrine In February of 1947‚ Britain informed the United States that it could no longer provide financial aid to Greece and Turkey. The U S had been monitoring Greece economically and their political problems‚ paying close attention to the rise of the Communist-led insurgency known as the National Liberation Front‚ or the ( Trumanlibrary2011). They were also monitoring events taking in Turkey. Turkey ’s government was week and they were being pressured by the Soviets to
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The Truman Doctrine Shortly after World War II had ended the Cold War began in 1945. The Cold War was fought between the United States and the U.S.S.R. The Cold War got its name because it never got “hot” with action of an actual battle. It was more of a verbal fighting and threating to blow up each other but never actually doing it. When the United States decided to drop a bomb on Japan‚ the U.S.S.R was mad the United States had secretly developed the bomb. Then Russia started spreading communism
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In the beginning of 1948‚ George Marshall‚ the United States’ Secretary of State‚ played off the idea of the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine was conceptualized during the previous year by the President of the United States‚ Harry S. Truman‚ and from this idea‚ George Marshall created the Marshall Plan. This was a successful act that aided the war torn countries in Europe. The Organization for European Economic Cooperation
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better life has died. We must keep that hope alive.” This quote from The Truman Doctrine‚ which was first articulated in 1947‚ had multiple factors. These included the Cold War and the threat of Soviet communism‚ the geopolitical disaster from World War II‚ economics‚ the deterioration of Great Britain as a global power‚ the U.S. rise as a new kind of superpower‚ and the well-being of western development. For Harry Truman‚ the president who knew of these issues‚ the United States was the only nation
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The Truman Doctrine‚ the Marshall Plan‚ NATO‚ support for Chiang Kai-shek in China‚ and the American response to the North Korean invasion were all based on the foreign policy of containment in hopes that the United States could create a way to eliminate the threat of anymore Soviet expansion. The Truman Doctrine was a way for the United States to give aid to those who who were trying to stop the damage that the Soviets were causing. The Truman Doctrine was the main contributing factor to why the
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isolationist state. The United States broke through the barrier of being an isolationist state and dedicated itself completely to preserving the welfare of the rest of the world. Largely due to the Truman Doctrine‚ the United States would no longer stay in the Western Hemisphere and hide behind the Monroe Doctrine‚ but would now make it her business to guide all facets of the world down the "right" path of liberty and democracy. This responsibility which the United States put upon herself would cause controversy
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Harry S. Truman to finish the global war and handle the future issues of the Cold War that will rise as consequence of World War II. World War II was in the final stages as Nazi German was surrounded and the allies were slowly closing in on Berlin; however‚ Truman soon engaged in conflicts concerning the spread of communism by Soviet Russia. Tensions began to rise between the Democratic West and Communist East‚ as the United States and Soviet Russia were the only two nations
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