In their eyes communism was EVIL. (With Stalin that was true.) They felt they must help the European nations and African nations get repaired and restored to good strong economies so they could fend off the communists. There plans and ideas did help the Europeans.
containtment
to help countries become stable so they wouln't turn to communism because the U.S. was trying to contain communism to where it already was
Greece and Turkey were the two countries to first receive aid under the Truman Doctrine-Marshall Plan.
The Truman doctrine, Marshall Plan, and the Berlin Airlift provided political, economic, and military support for countries fighting against Communist militias and the militaries of sovereign Communist countries. This allowed countries like Greece, Turkey, and West Germany, which could have fallen under Communist influence to remain aligned with the Capitalist West.
His name was Harry S. Truman NOT Trubman and the economic plan was the Marshall Plan!
Truman was the first US president to have to fight a limited war, it was he that ordered the world's first atomic weapon usage. And it was he, that had to stop the communists in Korea. His plans, although no doubt modified to meet the times, was still pursued in the fight to contain the spread of communism in Vietnam.
General Marshall managed to implement the Truman doctrine using the Marshall plan.
Truman Doctrine issued, Marshall Plan implemented, NATO formed
Harry S. Truman was the first president. The inventor of the marshall plan was George Marshall.
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan were essential for stopping the spread of communism in Europe at the end of World War II. The Marshall Plan was the initiative to provide economic support to Europe to rebuild and not consider communism.
the Marshall plan continued it by buying and supporting the smaller European countries.
No it complimented and expanded them
expansionism
Marshall Plan, Truman doctrine and I guess you could include the Eisenhower Doctrine as well.
Yes, these were mutually supportive US policies. The Marshall Plan was used to rebuild western Europe, which was then in a better position to resist the encroachment of communism, thereby supporting the Truman doctrine.
The Truman doctrine was a speech and a written document made by President Truman of the United States of America promising aid to countries threatened by communism. The Marshall Plan was a plan to send aid to countries in Europe that were struggling to recover from WW1. It consisted of $17bn and food aid as well.
1. Truman Doctrine (from USA) 2. Marshall Plan (from USA) 3. Molotov Plan (from USSR after they rejected Marshall Plan)
"Two halves of the same walnut" comes from President Harry Truman's speech promoting the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.