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Headings: US History/Truman and Cold War
US History/Truman and Cold War
Contents
Bitter Aftermath of Victory
Soviet Union
United States
President Harry S. Truman
Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
Reconstruction of the New World
Reconstruction of Japan
The Rise of Communism in China
The Red Scare and McCarthyism
The Korean War
Background
North Korean Offensive
Back and Fourth
Stalemate
Weapons of the Cold War
Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Triad
Deterrence
References

Content: Congress agreed and appropriated $400 million in aid for Greece and Turkey. By 1949, the Communists in Greece were defeated. In 1952, Greece and Turkey entered the NATO. The Marshall Plan
A photo of some Marshall Plan aid being delivered to Greek areas by donkey. The Marshall Plan was the first attempt to achieve the goals that America set in western Europe. The European nations were still unstable, both in politics and in economics, and so they did not have the money to purchase the good that they required from the U.S. The people and government of America were all extremely worried that if Europe's funds continued to be so unstable, this would trigger another great depression. With the memories of all the hardships and economic ruin of the Great Depression in the 1930s fresh in the American people's minds, the government decided they needed to do something. In order to make sure that there was not another worldwide depression, in 1948 the American government decided to launch a massive European recovery program called the Marshall Plan which sent 12.4 billion dollars to western Europe. A condition of this program was that Europe would spend this foreign-aid money on American products. This program ended in 1951.