COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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The United States gave economic assistance to countries so they would not become communist.
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The United States posted its military around the borders of the Soviet Union to contain its influence.
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The United States formed a tight alliance with the nations of Europe.
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The United States government ignored all other countries and focused only on issues contained within its borders.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Addressing a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman asked for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey and established a policy, aptly characterized 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: -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-4: -The Truman Doctrine was informally extended to become the basis of American Cold War policy throughout Europe and around the world. It shifted American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union from a wartime alliance to a policy of containment of Soviet expansion, as advocated by diplomat George Kennan.
Detailed explanation-5: -As a government report from 1950 put it, the goals of containment were one: block further expansion of Soviet power, two: expose the falsities of Soviet pretensions, three: induce a retraction of the Kremlin’s control and influence, and four: in general, foster the seeds of destruction within the Soviet system.