Title: how did the us attempt to stop the spread of communism influence international security? | camimartinez92
Headings: how did the us attempt to stop the spread of communism influence international security?
how did the us attempt to stop the spread of communism influence international security?
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Content: The immediate actions took by the American government were the implementation of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall plan. On first instance the Truman Doctrine was aimed, according to President Truman’s speech, to “help the free and independent nations to maintain their liberty”. Based on this speech of Truman to the Congress, it was important to make some changes on the objectives and the purposes of the American foreign policy. Therefore the foreign policy of the United States was now directed to the defense of the free world and the free countries all around the world opposing to the totalitarian regimes. This speech was the beginning of the containment policy against communism. Then we have the Marshall Plan, this plan is also known as the European Recover Program. This Plan was established because the United States was concern about that the critical economic situation that Europe was going through would led them to follow the communism model. Therefore George Marshall proposes to give economic aid to Europe. According to Rafael Aracil, the American government had giving Europe a total of 11 million dollars, but this wasn’t enough for the full recovery of the continent. One of the arguments that Marshall gave for the appliance of this plan was that it was possible that this economic crisis will affect the United States directly.