Truman+Docterin+-+Christensen



WHAT: ** // President Truman appeared before Congress using Kennan's warnings in the "Long Telegram" wich then became known as the Truman Doctrine. Based on the Long Telegram, Kennan published an article in the July 1947 issue of Foregin Affairs under the pseudonym "X," titled "The Sources of Soviet Conduct.President Truman, issued this doctrine after Prime Minister Tsaldaris of Greece visited Washington in December 1946 to ask for additional American assistance Aid andwas agreed by the United States government to be given to both Greece and Turkey. He knew this would later on help others and let them know that the United States ways would be the best foreveryone in the end. //
 * WHO **: // President Harry Truman //


 * WHEN: ** // March 12, 1947 //


 * WHERE: ** // This was done in the U.S. since Truman was the president at the time. It was all done to help any country that was under a threat of communism. //

WHY: ** //Truman felt that it was the United States dutey to help the other countries out. We needed to help them to stay out of the communisom so it did not spread more and more acrossed the world then it already is. Truman had stated//

//"I belive that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free people to work out their own destinies in their own way."

"... totalitarian regimes imposed on free peoples, by direct or indirect or indirect aggresion, undermine the foundations of internation peace and hence the security of the United States..."//

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