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Contain Communism - School Essays

Contain Communism

In 1947, in an effort to halt, or contain, the advance of communism in Europe, and especially
in Greece and Turkey, President Truman announced the policy known as the Truman Doctrine,
by which the United States furnished military and economic aid to countries threatened by
aggression and subversion. An important adjunct of this policy was the Marshall Plan,
proposed in June 1947 by Secretary of State George C. Marshall. Officially designated the
European Recovery Program, it was a broad program of economic rehabilitation. The policy of
containment was expanded to the western hemisphere in 1947, when the United States joined
with 18 other American nations in signing the Rio Treaty, ...

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1947.
The immediate objective of the policy was to send U.S. aid to anti-Communist forces in
Greece and Turkey, but it was later expanded to justify support for any nation that the United
States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2

Moves and Countermoves
U.S. officials, concerned over Soviet pressures against Iran and Turkey, interpreted a 1946
speech by Stalin as declaring ideological war against the West. In 1947 the president proposed
the Truman Doctrine, which had two objectives: to send U.S. aid to anticommunist forces in
Greece and Turkey, and to create a public consensus so Americans would be willing to fight
the cold war. He achieved both goals. That same year, journalist Walter Lippmann popularized
the term cold war in a book of the same name. In Congress there was a series of highly
publicized inquiries into pro-Communist activity in the United States. The best-known
investigator, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, gave his ...

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