Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan
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-A goal of the Marshall Plan was to prevent Western Europe, which was suffering devastation after World War II, from adopting communism (designed to provide immense economic recovery money to Western Europe over a four-year period.) -In addition to helping Western Europe, the Marshall Plan also assisted Japan. Japan's economy was decimated in the aftermath of World War II.
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-With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. (aka the counter Soviet communism)
Truman Doctrine
President Harry Truman created the Truman Doctrine when he promised that the United States would protect Turkey and Greece from the Soviet Union.
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
