what effects did the truman doctrine have on the cold war?

Question

please list at least one

Answer 1

He was the first true doctor to treat the common cold virus with chicken soup. Thus winning the war for everyone who had a bad cold.

Answer 2

It effectively started it.
Truman announced he was drawing a line in Greece and Turkey and challenged the Russians to cross it.

The Truman Doctrine was reflected in the Berlin Airlift of 1948, and in the Korean War 1950-1953. Use of the doctrine by Truman's predecessors led to the Vietnam War and the nuclear arms race.

Answer 3

The Doctrine shifted American foreign policy towards the Soviet Union from Détente to, as George F. Kennan phrased it, a policy of containment of Soviet expansion. It is often used by historians as the starting date of the Cold War.

Answer 4

Well a lot of Eastern European countries THOUGHT they could count on America to help them when they rebelled against the Soviets, but as it turned out America turned the other way and Soviets were able to more effectively control the iron curtain and keep countries under their influence.

Answer 5

containment, detente

it basically started the cold war.

basically, the US gave aid to countries vulnerable to communist tendancies to prevent them from siding with the Soviet Union