Many doctrines were created because of the events during the Cold War and the Truman Doctrine was one of them. Before the doctrines were created, the U.S. had relations with other countries, but not all were positive, which led to their creation. Over the years, the relations since the creations of the doctrines have changed and improved with other countries. The doctrines did have an effect on the area since it was announced during the Cold War. There is a chance that the doctrine had an intended effect on changing the behavior of a country. The Truman Doctrine was created in 1947 to try to stop the spread of communism from the Soviet Union. Soviet Union was trying to spread it influence into other countries. The global events heading
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However, it did have an effect on the behavior of the Soviet Union, but it was probably not the effect they intended when creating the doctrine. Russia saw this as a threat to Communism and to them, which increased the hostilities toward the U.S. This also affected the U.S., because of the increasing fear of the spread of Communism. The Soviet Union did reply back to the Marshall Plan by created the Molotov Plan which was to aid and rebuild countries that were aligned with the Soviet Union. This allowed the Soviet Union to keep its sphere of influence over the satellite states, to prevent them from accepting aid by the Marshall Plan. The rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Union and the events that took place during the Cold War, may be looked at started with the Truman Doctrine. However, some put the blame of the Cold War starting with Russia. According to Offner (17 Feb 2011), when Russian cracked down on Eastern Europe when the Marshall Plan precluded Moscow taking part, Truman blamed Russia for the Cold War, (Offner). Over the years of the Cold War, Russia contested the U.S. with different issues, such as the Cuban Missile Crises, when they placed nuclear missiles on Cuban. The world thought at that time, there was going to be a nuclear war between the U.S. and Soviet Union. The Space Race was another event in the Cold War, where Russia launched Sputnik, first man-made object, in Earth’s Orbit. The U.S. response was to ramp up its Space program and was the first to put a person on the
However, it did have an effect on the behavior of the Soviet Union, but it was probably not the effect they intended when creating the doctrine. Russia saw this as a threat to Communism and to them, which increased the hostilities toward the U.S. This also affected the U.S., because of the increasing fear of the spread of Communism. The Soviet Union did reply back to the Marshall Plan by created the Molotov Plan which was to aid and rebuild countries that were aligned with the Soviet Union. This allowed the Soviet Union to keep its sphere of influence over the satellite states, to prevent them from accepting aid by the Marshall Plan. The rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Union and the events that took place during the Cold War, may be looked at started with the Truman Doctrine. However, some put the blame of the Cold War starting with Russia. According to Offner (17 Feb 2011), when Russian cracked down on Eastern Europe when the Marshall Plan precluded Moscow taking part, Truman blamed Russia for the Cold War, (Offner). Over the years of the Cold War, Russia contested the U.S. with different issues, such as the Cuban Missile Crises, when they placed nuclear missiles on Cuban. The world thought at that time, there was going to be a nuclear war between the U.S. and Soviet Union. The Space Race was another event in the Cold War, where Russia launched Sputnik, first man-made object, in Earth’s Orbit. The U.S. response was to ramp up its Space program and was the first to put a person on the