mar 12, 1947 - Truman announces the Truman Doctrine - to assists victims of aggression - democracy strand against communism

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"Truman himself gave the third speech a year later, on March 12 1947 in which he asked Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey and announced the Truman Doctrine, with its implied American commitment to assist victims of aggression and intimidation throughout the world…his ideological justification for these measures was Wilsonian: the world was now divided between two ways of life – not communism vs capitalism, but democracy vs authoritarianism, a distinction that allowed him to link this new American involvement in Euopean affairs with the ones that had preceded it in 1917 and in 1941…that became the point of the Marshall Plan" (Gaddis 2006, p. 95)

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