COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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economic and military support to European nations to stop the spread of Communism
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military troops to end ethnic warfare in the former Yugoslavia
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humanitarian aid to starving people in Ethiopia and Sudan
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the rights of freedom of speech and the press to Greek and Turkish citizens
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Detailed explanation-1: -With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
Detailed explanation-2: -The NATO agreement formalized the multinational pact that was built on the foundation of American foreign policy created by the Truman Doctrine, which implied American support for nations threatened by Soviet communism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Its purpose was to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom – all of this in the context of countering the threat posed at the time by the Soviet Union. The Alliance’s founding treaty was signed in Washington in 1949 by a dozen European and North American countries.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Truman Doctrine demonstrated that the United States would not return to isolationism after World War II, but rather take an active role in world affairs. To help rebuild after the war, the United States pledged $13 billion of aid to Europe in the Marshall Plan.
Detailed explanation-5: -NATO allowed the member countries to work together to protect against Soviet aggression. The Soviet Union wanted to expand their ideologies further across Europe and the world.