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Dec 30, 2019 · His speech to Congress in 1947 urging aid to Greece and Turkey subtly marked the most sweeping pronouncement ever of an American foreign policy shift. It turned America into an interventionist power and solidified the Cold War status that had quickly developed after World War II.
Truman's accession to the presidency may have been more by accident than by design, but he believed nothing of the sort about America. He proclaimed in a 1948 speech the conviction he often echoed during his public life.
- William Inboden
- 2008
The country assumed a leadership position in a postwar world primarily shaped by growing antagonism with the Soviet Union. Truman pursued an interventionist foreign policy that took measures to contain Soviet influence in Europe and stem the spread of communism in Asia.
- Kaete O'Connell
- 2019
Jul 2, 2024 · The Truman Doctrine significantly shaped US foreign policy post-World War II and during the Cold War by committing to contain communism. It marked a shift from isolationism to active...
Nov 21, 2023 · The Truman Doctrine was a deviation from a pre-World World II approach to foreign policy. Prior to the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, U.S. foreign policy was based on an isolation model....
Jan 1, 2017 · For Truman, his doctrine was the cornerstone of postwar U.S. foreign policy. And this cornerstone made subsequent building blocks of the containment strategy—such as the Marshall Plan, NATO, the expansion of the Voice of America and the establishment of Radio Free Europe, and NSC 68—both feasible and solid.
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President Truman's statesmanship consists in the fact that his administra-tion's foreign policy fused moral principle and national self-interest and that his articulation of foreign policy educated citizens in the principles of the Ameri-can regime and in the nature of the threat to it. The Truman Doctrine and the
