1947 - The Truman Doctrine
- set out by President Truman
- new policy designed to deal with communisum
- promised US support for "free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures" - in other words, people under the threat of communisum
- adopted the policy of containment
- sought to keep the USSR in it's current boundaries and undermine Soviet influence
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