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CONTAINMENT
A Coggle Diagram about THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE (Any country that opposed communism would receive financial/military/political support from the West (US), 1947, Eventually assisted in the formation of NATO in 1949, Would support any democratic nation under threat from an internal or external authoritarian force (AKA: communism) and Implemented by President Harry S. Truman), THE MARSHALL PLAN (1947, Implemented by General George Marshall, US Secretary of State, Belief: If workers had good jobs and were paid well in a democratic country, then communism would not be attractive (targeted the needs of the people?), US spent approx. $13 billion repairing Western Europe after WWII over the next 4 years and Plan made Western Europe + its nations wealthy, limited the spread of communism and initiated prosperous trade partners and political allies), FORMATION OF NATO (DEFINITION OF 'NATO', Formed in 1949 and US initiated military alliance of non-communist countries in Europe and North America - members of NATO would defend each other if attacked by the Soviets), DEFINITION OF 'CONTAINMENT' and GEORGE KEENAN (George Keenan's 'long telegram' convinced Harry S. Truman that Stalin was an extremist and that communism was a direct threat to the US, hence the adoption of the 'containment' policy)