LAD #29

LAD #29-Truman's Doctrine

The Truman Doctrine was the United States way of avoiding a conflict with the Soviet Union by warning that the United States would not let Turkey and Greece fall to the Soviet power. America took a stand to this enemy power and although Truman does not directly address the Soviet Union, one can assume that is the power he is referring to. By providing military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey, he is trying to decrease the power and threat of the Soviets, for it was common knowledge at the time that the two nations did not get along. America feared the domino theory at the time, the belief that as more nations fell to the Soviets, communism would spread throughout Europe, in a sense like dominos. The Truman Doctrine in a sense was the United States way of preventing the spread of communism and protecting weaker European nations from falling to its evils and limiting the Soviets influence and spread.