WHAT WAS THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE AND THE MARSHALL PLAN?
I. The Cold War
1. March 5, 1946: Fulton, Missouri
Churchill: speech: iron curtain dividing the continent
2. Bi-polar world
· tensions between the US and the SU
over: - the fate of Germany and Berlin
- the fate of Central and Eastern-Europe
· by
controll
® communist movements, civil wars
Þ policy of containment (George Kennan)
- to prevent the spreading of community
II. March, 1947: Truman Doctrine
The US should (and would) support free people resisting attempted domination
by armed minorities (communists) or outside pressure (SU).
® $ 400 million to Greece and Turkey
III. Marshall Plan (» Dawes Plan)
· Offered massive economic aid to help the recovery of European economy
· 1948-1953: $ 13 billion of aid were given to the European countries
· All European countries were invited, but the SU attacked as "Yankee imperialism" and refused it.
It also kept its satellites from it.
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