what was the truman doctrine?

Question

what was the truman doctrine? where was it first applied? why did some oppose this strategy?

Answer 1

The Truman Doctrine, 1947 was an aggressive policy of containment of Soviet expansion. It started the with U.S. support of Greece and Turkey to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. Many people thought the stated policy was too provocative and dangerous (brinkmanship) and preferred more passive containment which was our policy in later years.

Answer 2

This can't be a homework question. There is no comparison. Truman had the responsibility of using the Atomic bomb, Ike had the cold war to deal with hopefully with out the bomb, Ike was Military. Truman was gentle. Do you remember LSMFT? Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco or what the Military men at he time said. Lord Save me from Truman

Answer 3

Made to help the people in europe after ww2 i think in 1946 no one really opposed it.

Answer 4

The Truman Doctrine was a proclamation by U.S. president Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947. It stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. The Doctrine shifted American foreign policy as regards the Soviet Union from Détente to, as George F. Kennan phrased it, a policy of containment of Soviet expansion. Historians often use it to mark the starting date of the Cold War.

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1 History
2 Metaphor
3 References
4 External links
5 See also



[edit] History
Harry S Truman's decision, supported by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg and the Republican-controlled Congress, came after the United Kingdom urgently informed Washington that it was no longer able to support the Greek government's efforts to fight its civil war against Communist insurgents (1946-1949). Aid was given to Turkey because of the historic tensions with Greece. It was an early response to political aggression by the Soviet Union in Europe and the Middle East, illustrated through the Communist movements in Turkey and Greece. The Truman Doctrine was the first in a succession of containment moves by the United States, followed by economic restoration of Western Europe through the The Marshall Plan and military containment by the creation of NATO in 1949. In Truman's words, it became "the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." Truman reasoned, because these "totalitarian regimes" coerced "free peoples," they represented a threat to international peace and the national security of the United States.

President Truman made the proclamation in an address to the U.S. Congress on March 12, 1947, amid the crisis of the Greek Civil War. Truman insisted that if Greece and Turkey did not receive the aid that they needed, they would inevitably fall to Communism with consequences throughout the region.

Truman signed the act into law on May 22, 1947. It granted $400 million ($300 million to Greece and $100 million to Turkey) in military and economic aid. The economic aid was to be used in repairing the infrastructure of these countries and military aid came in the form of military personnel supervising and helping with the reconstruction of these countries while training soldiers. It should be noted that this American aid was in many ways a replacement for British aid which the British were no longer financially in a position to give. The policy of containment and opposition to communists in Greece for example was carried out by the British before 1947 in many of the same ways it was carried out afterward by the Americans.

The doctrine also had consequences elsewhere in Europe. Governments in Western Europe with powerful Communist movements such as Italy and France were given a variety of assistance and encouraged to keep Communist groups out of governments. In some respects, these moves were in response to moves made by the Soviet Union to purge opposition groups in Eastern Europe out of existence.

In 1950, Truman signed the top-secret policy plan NSC-68 which shifted foreign policy from passive to active containment. The document differed from George F. Kennan's original notion of containment outlined in his "X" article, containing much harsher anti-communist rhetoric. NSC-68 explicitly stated that the Communists planned for world domination.

The Truman Doctrine also contributed to and became rationale for America's first involvements in the Vietnam War. Starting shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War, Truman attempted to aid France's bid to hold onto its Vietnamese colonies. The United States supplied French forces with equipment and military advisors in order to combat Ho Chi Minh and anti-colonial Communist revolutionaries.


[edit] Metaphor
The Truman Doctrine and Marshal Plan (European recovery plan) has become a metaphor for emergency aid to keep a nation from Communist influence.[citation needed] Truman used disease imagery not only to communicate a sense of impending disaster in the spread of communism but also to create a "rhetorical vision" of containing it by extending a protective shield around non communist countries throughout the world. It echoed the "quarantine the aggressor" policy Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked Morgan to propose in 1937. The medical metaphor extended beyond the immediate aims of the Truman Doctrine in that the imagery combined with fire and flood imagery evocative of disaster provided the United States with an easy transition to direct military confrontation in later years with Communist forces in Korea and Vietnam.