WWI set the world up for yet another war, however, this wasn't just any war seen before, because now with the threat of communism taking over other parts of the world, along with new powerful weapons on the rise, the cold war became a great war of fear and power, lasting multiple decades. Truman responds to the incoming threats of the soviets and communism in the famous Truman doctrine. At first he explains how the US needs to help the countries of Europe that have been destroyed from war, and how Greece was prevented from reconstructing themselves due to the soviets. he also says the US needs to help countries like Turkey to promote democracy in other countries before the soviets reach them and implement their communist ideals. Trumans requests troops be sent to these two nations and also send substantial monetary aid to help them reconstruct. As US foreign affairs always are, its important to recognize the self interest in this doctrine, while it is important to help rebuild other nations, Truman had a greater concern with putting the democratic influence on these nations to prevent the USSR from gaining more speed.
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similarly the Monroe doctrine was used to
spread US influence on other continents
before other world powers could reach them,
marked by the same type of
self interest.
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