Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, 1947

by 1947, the US foreign policy was changed dramatically from the candidatory approach towards the Soviets to a more militant one
Truman issued a statement in March saying that it "must be the policy of the Unite States to free peoples who are resisting subjugation"
pressure for the US government to take action came from the Long Telegram and Iron Curtain speech in 1946
the West saw Soviet expansion through events in Greece
since 1944, Greece had been in a civil war between the monarchists and communists
following the defeat of Nazi Germany, the British helped restore the Greek royal…

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