... . He called for $400 million to aid to Greece and Turkey in quelling guerrilla uprisings, some of which were communist. More significant than the request itself was the broader aim of Truman's speech. He articulated the concept that would shape the entire Cold War: containment. Truman asserted that the Soviet Union, like Germany before it, sought world domination. As William Chafe has written of ... within the government that he believed were working for the Soviet Union. Americans became sycophantic and sacked moderate people from influential positions. As La Feber says "The 1960's gene...

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... more direct method of gaining allies was the Truman Doctrine of 1946 which was used to justify support for any nation that the United States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2 It was the beginning of American policy for the cold war. This policy also had another name " ... at the forefront; all the countries in the world either sided with a super power, or chose a position of neutrality. Even when the United States seemed to be faring badly (in instances like the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Soviets drawing first blood in the space race, no other ...

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... has been tension between this cluster of countries for quite a while, even before the Korean War occurred. Before World War 2, Japan was in control of Korea, but by the end of the war the United States decided to occupy the southern half of Korea. The United States took control of South Korea ... on Korea. Death and destruction lived on in Korea. President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas Mac Arthur both admitted that the war in Korea nearly destroyed the nation. Truman goes on to say, "I have never seen such devastation. I have seen, I guess as much blood and disaster as any living m...

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• Grade Level: High School