Because communism had spread across the European countries at the time.
One way that the Truman Doctrine was used to stop the spread of communism is by his policy called containment. This was a way to pour money and supplies into war-torn countries, keep them afloat and stop the spread of communism. Another example is the Marshal Plan that also gave money to European countries in return for support.
It would resitrct communism to countries that were communist before World War II In 1947, the President of the United States of America, Harry Truman delivered a speech and he announced that he was willing to help any country under threat from Communism. He gave out billions of dollars to European countries with permission from Congress. The money was to help the countries recover and to prevent Communism from spreading across Europe. (Estimated $13 billion dollars was given out to 16 European countries)
Italy. The European Renaissance began in Italy and spread to other countries.
The Marshall Plan was put into effect by the US to rebuild European countries after World War 2.
The fight against the spread of Communism.
North Vietnam.
The US didnt really get a great deal out of the war there only achievement was to stop the spread of communism throughout the country and the surrounding countries
Western Bloc
This is what i read in my history classs :) Countries like North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba and China were opressed with foreign intrests in there countries or something like that, and other eastern European countries were forced into communism by Russia...
no, we try to stop the spread of communism, we are not communists.
because he wanted to stop the spread of communism. because of the domino theory if 1 country were to fall then neighboring countries would fall to communism as well and he wanted to prevent that from happening