How Did The Truman Doctrine Affect The Cold War

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The policies of the U.S that affected the Cold War includes The Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan and Containment. The Cold War was the power struggle between the U.S and the USSR which led to the improvement of arms and the spread of new ideas. The Truman Doctrine was created to scare Congress by stating that Greece and Turkey could become communist if we did not help them. The Truman Doctrine asked Congress to give $400 million in emergency assistance. The Truman Doctrine led to in June 1947, George C. Marshall proposed the idea to extend the aid to Europe by stating “I believe we must assist free peoples to work out their destinies in their own way.” The key to preventing the overthrow of free nations was to attack the conditions of “misery …show more content…

Not only did the Marshall Plan help Western Europe after WWII it prevented the USSR to spread the idea of communism in Europe. The USSR however responded with the Molotov Plan which is similar to The Marshall Plan. The Molotov Plan helped Eastern Europe become financially and economically stable as well. The Molotov Plan was a success and led to the creation of Comecon which was a collection of communist states around the world. The Comecon was created to stop the influence of the Americans and South East Asia. As the Truman Doctrine and The Marshall Plan helped restore countries to prevent communism The Policy of Containment began.
The Policy of Containment is preventing the spread communism to defenseless countries. The Truman Doctrine and The Marshall Plan prevented the spread of communism to Western Europe, Greece and Turkey. Containment would be the U.S. way of stopping countries falling to communism which would be referred to as The Domino Effect. The idea of containment came from George F Kennan who is referred to as “the father of containment” The Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan and The Policy of Containment prevented the spread of communism which was an important role of the Cold

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