Cold War
Truman 1945-1953 and expansion of communism
As the 21 century approaches, there was every indication on the firmness of Present Harry S. Truman's reputation on the subject of his stewardship of foreign policy even though, as luck would have it, he took over Oval Office in the year 1945 inexperienced in affairs of the world. As he was approaching the end of his reign in the White House, there were accusations from the Republicans that his administration had surrendered about fifteen nations as well as subjecting five hundred million persons to communism and further sent close to twenty thousand Americans to the so call their "burial ground" in Korea. This deepened Truman's public favorable rating leaving it at 23%.
President Harry Truman adopted an international relations policy that he did set in his speech in March 1947. The speech stated that the United States would assist Turkey as well as Greece in terms of military and economic issues for them not to be in a position to fall into the Soviet sphere. According to Fraser J. Harbutt, (2002), historians over and over again consider it as the beginning of the Cold War as well as the commencement of the containment policy purposely to put an end to the spreading of Soviet. President Harry Truman then went ahead and explained to the Congress the purpose of the Doctrine, which he said, was purely to assist free persons who are opposing efforts by armed minorities towards subjugation not forgetting pressure from outside (Michael Beschloss, 2006). Truman acted in this manner for the reason that these dictatorial regimes pressurized free persons and this imposes threat to international peace as well as international safety of the U.S.A. This plea came up in the course of the Greek Civil war crisis that occurred around 1946 -- 1949. The president...
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