Truman Doctrine

TRUMAN DOCTRINE

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Date Truman Doctrine was a reaction of the US towards Britain 's move to cut military and financial aid for Greece in 1946 . Britain had cited the reason that the war was tough and protracted and it could not make it alone if US continued with its isolation policy . According to the US ambassador in Moscow , George Kennan , the US had to embark on a containment policy or else the Soviet Union take control of the world It could also be termed

as the number of measures that the US government took to check the spread of communism in Greek and Turkey by the Soviet Union . At this period , Greek war was at war with communists ' rebels and it desperately needed that assistance if it was to survive . This will mainly focus on Truman Doctrine that is what transpired its formation , its content and the outcomes of the doctrine

According to Spalding (2006 , situation that surrounded Greek 's government led US to reconsider its stand something that led to its abandonment of its war time isolationism policy . This came as Britain declared that it would cut the military and economic aid it provided to the Greek government because it could no longer afford it citing the reason that the war between the government forces against communist rebels was far from being won . The US government saw this as a loophole towards the expansion of the Soviet Unions ' communism ideologies . The situation was such...