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This made the United States and especially Truman very nervous. This is why the Marshall Plan, which is one of the direct influences to the Doctrine, was thought up. This plan was designed to give aid to any European country damaged during World War Two. It tremendously helped ravaged European nations such as Italy and France. By helping these countries the United States was economically forcing away communism. This was the way the United States had it all planned out. We weren’t making the Communist very mad cause it was very indirect but later on this wouldn’t be the case.
The process by which the Truman Doctrine came about was a long and tedious one. After World War Two the US and Soviet Union were at the top of all world powers. Everything was pretty much equal such as military, economics, and nuclear power. The one thing that scared the LIST the most was the fact that the Soviets were greedy and wanted more and more land. This is where we began to see a huge threat to Greece, Turkey, and Iran. On March 12, 1947 President Harry S. Truman gave a speech to congress that would later be call the Truman Doctrine.
The Truman Doctrine would ask for a total of 400 million dollars for both Greece and Turkey (Truman peg. 565). The money for Greece would be split between economic and military aid and for Turkey the aid was entirely for military purposes. The President had turned debate on two modest proposals into a vote of confidence on his administration’s foreign policy and a test of American willingness to resist a threat defined to endanger the basic security ND values of the American society. By Truman doing this it almost put congress at a no win situation.
Congress couldn’t go against Truman cause this speech was nationally broadcast which would mean the people would be scared. By everyone hearing that there is such a threat of course they wanted to be protected so turning this down was not an option. Also if congress denied this plea it would have putt One of the failures that came about to Truman was that most of Europe was struggling economically and now they were in somewhat of a threat from communist. This brought about the earlier stated Marshall Plan.
This plan offered aid to all nations. The US had now become a very internationalists state in a matter of months. The Truman Doctrine has affected everyone in the US and nearly every country in the world. Many people blame the involvement in the wars in Korea and Vietnam on the doctrine. But what if the doctrine wasn’t passed? Communism most likely would still be trying to take over and we might have been one of those countries. Truman wanted to restore balance and didn’t have the intention of locoing the world.