The Truman Doctrine
Impact
Raising Tension & World Peace
Details
Context
Post WWII. Germany was divided by Britain, the US, the Soviet Union and France
Europe is damaged economically, with destroyed industrial infrastructure and homelessness.
Truman(US president) is sceptical of Stalin, wartime alliance between the US with UK and the Soviet Union was breaking.
Date: March 12, 1947
Doctrine: Assist all democratic nations threatened by external or internal authoritarian forces through political, economical, and military means.
Soviet Union and other country's matters will be intercepted by the US
The Greek Government has its economic and military aid from the British Government cut, during their civil war with the Greek Communist Party.
Importance
Civil Wars during the Cold War such as the Vietnamese civil war was used by the US and Soviet Union as a proxy war.
Foreign policy direction changed
More involved with regional conflicts
May make other governments feel intruded
The Soviet Union could feel controlled and threatened
Made Capitalist and Communist rivalry obvious and serious
Intensified the hostility and threatened World Peace
Gave the US an excuse for having proxy wars, develop great weapons and intercept the governing of other countries