1 gen 1947 anni - Truman Doctrine

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Truman Doctrine: President Harry S. Truman’s commitment to “support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947, it became the justification for U.S. intervention into several countries during the Cold War.


In February 1947, London informed Washington that it could no longer afford to support the anticommunists in the Greek civil war. Truman worried that a communist victory in Greece would lead to Soviet domination of the eastern Mediterranean and embolden Communist parties elsewhere. In response, the president announced what became known as the Truman Doctrine. In a speech on March 12, he asserted an American responsibility “to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” To that end, Truman proposed large-scale financial assistance for Greece and Turkey (then involved in a dispute with the Soviet Union over access to the Mediterranean). “If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world,” Truman declared (see “Thinking Like a Historian”). Congress quickly approved Truman’s request for $300 million in aid to Greece and $100 million for Turkey.

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