The Truman Doctrine Questions
1) What were the reasons that led the USA to getting involved in Greece and Turkey?
The British Embassy informed the U.S. State Department officials that Great Britain could no longer provide financial aid to the governments of Greece and Turkey. The United States had also been following events in Turkey, where a weak government faced Soviet pressure to share control of the strategic Dardanelle Straits. Britain announced that it would withdraw aid to Greece and Turkey.
2) What is the Domino Theory and how does it relate to this circumstance?
The domino theory, Acheson stated that more was at stake than Greece and Turkey, for if those two key states should fall, communism would likely spread south to Iran and as far east as India. The stunned legislators agreed to endorse the program on the condition that President Truman stress the severity of the crisis in an address to Congress and in a radio broadcast to the American people.
3) The Truman Doctrine can be called the beginning of Cold War Foreign policy. Explain this.
The sanction of aid to Greece and Turkey by a Republican Congress indicated the beginning of a long and enduring bipartisan cold war foreign policy.
The British Embassy informed the U.S. State Department officials that Great Britain could no longer provide financial aid to the governments of Greece and Turkey. The United States had also been following events in Turkey, where a weak government faced Soviet pressure to share control of the strategic Dardanelle Straits. Britain announced that it would withdraw aid to Greece and Turkey.
2) What is the Domino Theory and how does it relate to this circumstance?
The domino theory, Acheson stated that more was at stake than Greece and Turkey, for if those two key states should fall, communism would likely spread south to Iran and as far east as India. The stunned legislators agreed to endorse the program on the condition that President Truman stress the severity of the crisis in an address to Congress and in a radio broadcast to the American people.
3) The Truman Doctrine can be called the beginning of Cold War Foreign policy. Explain this.
The sanction of aid to Greece and Turkey by a Republican Congress indicated the beginning of a long and enduring bipartisan cold war foreign policy.