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Content: Truman Doctrine
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. The immediate cause for the doctrine to be announced was that the British Government would no longer provide military and economic assistance to the Greek Government in its civil war against the Greek Communist Party. Truman asked Congress to support the Greek Government against the Communists. He also asked Congress to provide assistance for Turkey, since that nation, too, had previously been dependent on British aid. Soon this general principle was applied to Western Europe as a whole. Truman argued that the United States could no longer stand by and allow the forcible expansion of Soviet totalitarianism into free, independent nations, because American national security now depended upon more than just the physical security of American territory. Marshall Plan
Marshall said that the US Policy's "purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the existence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist." The Marshall Plan (AKA the European Recovery Program) generated a resurgence of European industrialization and brought extensive investment into the region. It was also a stimulant to the U.S. economy by establishing markets for American goods. Over $12 billion was put towards the rebuilding of Western Europe by the US.