... Europe. This "domino theory" played a big role in U.S. foreign policy. As the Truman Doctrine stated, it was the "policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures." This implies that ... the United States will come to the aid of countries threatened by Communism. Also, the Marshall Plan called for the United States to assist nations in ... communism. One can more easily contain communism when these Western European capitalist democracies are doing well. The $17 billion in aid also helped U.S. exports and markets ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... and generally had to be protected by countries like Britain in the past. These countries were able to use this assistance to maintain self sufficiency and combat the idealistic viewpoints of socialistic communism that seemed very ideal to many people at the time. The strong aggression the soviets had directly after WWII in 1945 pushed America to conclude with the Marshall plan ... as an attempt to win back some of the countries the Soviet union had already taken. After the war, ... ;totalitarian regimes," because the spread of authoritarianism would "undermine the foundations of internat...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate