At the time the Soviets were pressing and searching and trying to find every soft spot where they could insert themselves. What does Clifford mean when he says, "an enormous vacuum had been left in the free world by the end of World War II? Compare Truman's address in Activity 6 with Clifford's statements in his oral history in Activity 7. Make a list of similarities and differences between the two sources of information. What can you conclude from this comparison?
Harry Truman and the Truman Doctrine. Lesson Author. Adams, Mark. Course s. American History. Required Time Frame. Subject s. Truman Doctrine. Grade Level s. Lesson Abstract.
Students will learn about the conditions in Greece and Turkey during the Cold War and learn about Truman's response through the Truman Doctrine. Rationale why are you doing this? His penchant for simple prose provides an entry point for discussing three aspects of a changing geopolitical landscape: This speech helped introduce two important ideas that have shaped the way our presidents have argued for foreign policy: direct economic aid and containment.
The speech enlivens studies of European geography, providing social and political context for the boundaries on the map—and how they have changed over time. Historically, the speech illustrates the isolationism of post-World War II Americans—and how the Soviet Union came to be seen as a global threat. Lesson Objectives - the student will. Examine conditions in Greece and Turkey in Analyze documents and photographs from the time period Evaluate the Truman Doctrine as a policy. Truman uses a series structure where each claim relies on the one before it: 1 Greece and Turkey are in crisis.
As they read, students should follow and critique this line of arguments. Students should analyze how Truman develops the logic of the Cold War in his speech. The text begins small, set in the localized context of Greece—then gradually moves outward to place Greece in a larger context, to define the risks posed by destabilized countries in Eastern Europe, and to finally develop a description of a world dominated by two types of leadership: freedom based on the will of the majority, and oppression by the minority.
Additionally, Truman depicts important geographic relationships among countries in Western Europe. In Turkey, the Soviets were demanding some manner of control over the Dardanelles, territory from which Turkey was able to dominate the strategic waterway from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. On March 12, , Truman appeared before a joint session of Congress to make his case. The world, he declared, faced a choice in the years to come. Congress approved his request two months later.
The Truman Doctrine was a de facto declaration of the Cold War. Cold War foreign policy: the Soviet Union was the center of all communist activity and movements throughout the world; communism could attack through outside invasion or internal subversion; and the United States needed to provide military and economic assistance to protect nations from communist aggression. And whether U.
Indeed, both nations established repressive right-wing regimes in the years following the Truman Doctrine. Yet, the Truman Doctrine successfully convinced many that the United States was locked in a life-or-death struggle with the Soviet Union, and it set the guidelines for over 40 years of U.
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The impetus for the policy came when Great Britain, facing a postwar financial and imperial crisis, informed the United States in February that it would discontinue aid to anti-Communist forces in Greece and Turkey. This prompted a critical U. Access to the complete content on Oxford Reference requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription. Please subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you have purchased a print title that contains an access token, please see the token for information about how to register your code. For questions on access or troubleshooting, please check our FAQs , and if you can''t find the answer there, please contact us. In fact, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had deliberately refrained from providing any support to the Greek Communists and had forced Yugoslav Prime Minister Josip Tito to follow suit, much to the detriment of Soviet-Yugoslav relations.
In light of the deteriorating relationship with the Soviet Union and the appearance of Soviet meddling in Greek and Turkish affairs, the withdrawal of British assistance to Greece provided the necessary catalyst for the Truman Administration to reorient American foreign policy. Truman justified his request on two grounds. He argued that a Communist victory in the Greek Civil War would endanger the political stability of Turkey, which would undermine the political stability of the Middle East.
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