Truman+Doctrine+-+Droz

​ = = =__ T r um a n D o ct r ine __ = ** __ W h O: __ 33 rd President Harry S. Truman**

__ W h e n :__ March 12, 1947
 * __**[[image:truman-doctrine.jpg align="left"]] W** h **aT**__**:** ** President Truman appeared before Congress and using George Kennan's warnings in the "Long Telegram" as the basis for what we now know to be called the Truman Doctrine. President Truman declared it the Truman Doctrine to be the foreign policy of the United States. He felt it the United State's duty to assist any country who was threatened by communism. Truman requested $400 million to help Greece and Turkey and Congress agreed, approving the policy. **


 * **__Whe r e: __ P r esident T r uman was p r esident of the United States so the r e fo r the policy was founded and app r oved in the United States. The policy was to help fo r eign count r ies unde r th r eat of communism. The U.S. helped by c r eating a policy called Containment. **

** __ Wh y : __ President Truman felt that the United States had a responsibility in aiding other countries against communism. In one of the links below President Truman stated this: **  who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid, which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.” ** __ Hyp e rl in ks: __ **
 * “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples
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