Truman Doctrine On March 12, 1947, President Harry Truman addressed congress with a plan to stop communist ideals. At a time when the world was still recuperating from the second largest war anyone had experienced. History was being made in the 1940’s a few months prior to Truman’s Doctrine the United States attacked Japan with nuclear weapons under his presidency. President Harry Truman was eager to see a change in the country he was leading. Under his presidency he wanted to make it clear to the world that he did not believe or would ever accept any communist ideologies. And that he was going to help other countries fight against communist countries.
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It also helped introduce containment, which was an idea that the United States could enact many different policies to stop the spread of communism. It was also very significant because it ended up becoming the basis of what came to be known as “The Cold War” a great conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that would go on to last nearly half a century. Although the Truman doctrine did lead to a “war” between the USSR and The United States it also created a system which came to be known as ‘collective security”. Collective security was a system of allied nations that would keep one another out of harms way and help each other if war were to hit a country in that system. This strengthened the relations between the allied countries and formed many more alliances with other countries as a …show more content…
Although it did help several countries avoid the iron fist of communism and help our international relations it also led to the creation of the cold war and the red scare which terrified the united states and USSR for decades, making people feel paranoid that a nuclear holocaust was on the rise and the end was nigh. In the end I think that the Truman although causing hysteria did help the world and helped countries maintain their freedom. It also helped the United States statues on the international stage.
The Truman Doctrine was a great act that helped many countries maintain their freedom helping them retain their own thoughts and states of mind, which is how it should be. People should not have to answer to a totalitarian ruler or any one for that matter, they should be free and not have to limit themselves because of political boundaries, this is what Truman knew. He knew that freedom was a God given right that should be embraced and loved rather than oppressed; he knew that in the end.
Freedom shall
In response to the soviet unions ’s attempt to aid Greece and Turkey, President Truman …show more content…
It also helped introduce containment, which was an idea that the United States could enact many different policies to stop the spread of communism. It was also very significant because it ended up becoming the basis of what came to be known as “The Cold War” a great conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that would go on to last nearly half a century. Although the Truman doctrine did lead to a “war” between the USSR and The United States it also created a system which came to be known as ‘collective security”. Collective security was a system of allied nations that would keep one another out of harms way and help each other if war were to hit a country in that system. This strengthened the relations between the allied countries and formed many more alliances with other countries as a …show more content…
Although it did help several countries avoid the iron fist of communism and help our international relations it also led to the creation of the cold war and the red scare which terrified the united states and USSR for decades, making people feel paranoid that a nuclear holocaust was on the rise and the end was nigh. In the end I think that the Truman although causing hysteria did help the world and helped countries maintain their freedom. It also helped the United States statues on the international stage.
The Truman Doctrine was a great act that helped many countries maintain their freedom helping them retain their own thoughts and states of mind, which is how it should be. People should not have to answer to a totalitarian ruler or any one for that matter, they should be free and not have to limit themselves because of political boundaries, this is what Truman knew. He knew that freedom was a God given right that should be embraced and loved rather than oppressed; he knew that in the end.
Freedom shall