USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1947, President Harry S. Truman pledged that the United States would help any nation resist communism in order to prevent its spread. His policy of containment is known as the Truman Doctrine.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Truman Doctrine, also known as the policy of containment, was President Harry Truman’s foreign policy that the US would provide political, military, and economic aid to democratic countries under the threat of communist influences in order to prevent the expansion of communism.

Detailed explanation-3: -The immediate cause for the speech was a recent announcement by the British Government that, as of March 31, it would no longer provide military and economic assistance to the Greek Government in its civil war against the Greek Communist Party.

Detailed explanation-4: -Implications. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Truman Doctrine generally succeeded in containing Communism to its pre-1945 borders with exceptions in southeast Asia, Cuba, and Afghanistan.