THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Truman Doctrine
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Monroe Doctrine
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Roosevelt Doctrine
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Obama Doctrine
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Detailed explanation-1: -Truman issued what would become known as the Truman Doctrine: a promise that the United States would do whatever was necessary both economically and militarily to contain the spread of communism around the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -Truman argued that the United States could no longer stand by and allow the forcible expansion of Soviet totalitarianism into free, independent nations, because American national security now depended upon more than just the physical security of American territory.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.