The Truman Doctrine and NATO

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THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE AND NATO

The Greek civil war of 1945-1947 is a series of struggles started during the Second World War . After General Ioannis Metaxas dissolved the Greek Parliament in 1936 and put himself as a dictator , organized resistance in Greece was defeated and the country were put under the occupation of the Germans , Italian , and Bulgarians . However , the Greek and Yugoslav Communist parties succeeded in organizing extensive partisan resistance to challenge and placed military stress on occupational forces . In September of 1941

, the Greek Communist Party formed a National Liberation Front (EAM ) and with its armed wing (The Greek Liberation Army ) recruited over 60 ,000 fighters by 1943 (GSO n .d , 1

When the Germans withdrew their occupation of Greece in 1944 after the successful allied invasion , the British took control of Athens and established an interim administration . Maintaining a good relation with a war ally (against Germany , Moscow persuaded the armed communist guerillas to operate under the British command

A small-scale civil war began in December 3 , 1944 (GSO n .d , 1 right after the British announced the disbanding of the armed communist guerilla and demanded the surrender of their weapons . The resistance movement , unwilling to remove their weapons , went to wage war against the Greek Government and the British forces . The battle continues until the communist resistance movement accepted the Verzika Agreement to disarm and neutralize in February of 1945 thus reconciling the opposing blocs of Greece

The defiance of the Verzika Agreement from both sides initiated the second chapter of the civil war 1946 that claims thousands of lives With supports coming from communist countries like Yugoslavia , Bulgaria and Albania , communist guerillas were on the move to overthrow the Greek government . However , the full-scale Civil war only erupted in 1947 between the KKE (Greek Communist Party ) and the Right Wing Nationalist backed by the British

Since then , the Greek government became dependent on Great Britain 's military and financial aid to stay in power . In March 31 , 1947 , faced by its own economic difficulties , Great Britain officially withdrew their financial support to Greece and Turkey (GSO n .d , 2 . The United States perceived Soviet expansion and communist gain from this war , responded with a policy of containment , the famous Truman Doctrine

The Truman Doctrine is a political response to aggression by the Soviet Union in the countries of Europe and the Middle East exemplified by its aggression in Greece . The Truman doctrine is popularly as a containment (Wikipedia , n .d , Containment , p1 ) policy of the United States against communism . Containment 's primary goal according to George Frost Kennan , an American political adviser and regarded as the father of containment ' is to prevent the spread of communism to non-communist countries (Wikipedia , n .d , George Keenan ,

.1 . In simple words , contain ' or control communism within its bs . The Truman doctrine used containment ' as its main principle to block the proliferation of communism around the world . The essence of containment ' believed to be...