During WW II, the Soviet Union was our ally. They moved their armies in from the North and East and we attacked from the West and South. By the war's end they held the eastern part of Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Austria and Czechoslovakia. When the war ended, they set up puppet communist governments , or acknowledged revolutionary governments and kept their troops available in these areas to enforce the power of the governments they set up or acknowledged. When Truman issued his doctrine, in 1947, the governments of Turkey and Greece were weak and unstable and Communists were trying to take over.
the doctrine was first proposed to help Greece and turkey battle communist forces seeking to gain control of their governments
After TR died, Taft became president. After FDR died, Truman became president.
He became president in 1945.
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Harry Truman, the Vice-president., became President at the death of President Roosevelt on April 12.1945.
Harry Truman
When he became President he lived in Washington DC.
He was Franklin D. Roosevelt's vice-president. When FDR died Harry Truman became the president
Harry S Truman.
President Roosevelt's vice president, Harry Truman, became President of the United States after Roosevelt's death.
Harry S. Truman
Truman was the vice-president when President Roosevelt died and so became president, He then rather surprisingly ran a brilliant campaign was elected again.