THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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To encourage the spread of communism around the world.
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To encourage citizens to build nuclear fall-out shelters to “contain” people during the Cold War.
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To increase tension in the Middle East.
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To stop communism from spreading throughout Western Europe and Asia.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The “containment policy” was the U.S. approach to containing, or preventing, the spread of Communism after World War II. The idea was to make other countries prosperous enough to avoid the temptation of communism.
Detailed explanation-3: -The United States feared specifically a domino effect, that the communism of the USSR would spread from one country to the next, destabilizing one nation which would, in turn, destabilize the next and allow for communist regimes to dominate the region.
Detailed explanation-4: -Americans are worried that the spread of Communism threatens their freedoms, their individuality, and their way of living. Prior to World War II, Joseph Stalin aggressively transformed the communist Soviet Union into a totalitarian state.
Detailed explanation-5: -When communist rebels threatened the governments of Greece and Turkey in 1947, President Truman gave those countries military aid. With this help, the Greek and Turkish governments were able to defeat the communist rebels. The Truman Doctrine cont.