What was the Truman Doctrine?
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The Truman Doctrine was part of the United States' political response to perceived aggression by the Soviet Union in Europe and the Middle East, illustrated through the communist movements in Iran, Turkey and Greece. As a result, American foreign policy towards the USSR shifted, as George F. Kennan phrased it, to that of containment. Many believe the Truman Doctrine to be the first in a succession of containment moves by the United States, followed by economic containment (The Marshall Plan) and military containment (the creation of NATO.) Under the Truman Doctrine, the United States was prepared to send any money, equipment, or military force to countries that were threatened by the communist government, thereby offering assistance to those countries resisting communism. In U.S. President Harry S Truman's words, it became "the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."\n\nPresident Truman made the proclamation in an address to the U.S. Congress on March 12, 1947 amid the crisis of the Greek Civil War (1946-1949). Truman insisted that if Greece and Turkey did not receive the aid that they needed, they would inevitably fall to communism with consequences throughout the region.\n\nTruman signed the act into law on May 22, 1947 which granted $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece. It should be noted however that this American aid was in many ways a replacement for British aid which the British were no longer financially in a position to give. The policy of containment and opposition to communists in Greece for example was carried out by the British before 1947 in many of the same ways it was carried out afterward by the Americans.\n\nThe doctrine also had consequences elsewhere in Europe. Governments in Western Europe with powerful communist movements such as Italy and France were given a variety of assistance and encouraged to keep communist groups out of governments. In some respects, these moves were in response to moves by the Soviet Union to purge opposition groups in Eastern Europe out of existence.\n\nIn 1950, Truman signed NSC-68 which shifted foreign policy from passive to active containment. The document largely inspired by George F. Kennan explicitly stated that the Communists planned for world domination.\n\nThe Truman Doctrine also contributed to America's first involvements in the Vietnam War. Starting shortly after the outbreak of the Korean war, Truman attempted to aid France's bid to hold onto its Vietnamese colonies. The United States supplied French forces with equipment and military advisors in order to combat Ho Chi Minh and anti-colonial communist revolutionaries. The US propped up the French not out of a belief that they could hold on in Vietnam, but out of a hope that a government not under the control of Ho Chi Minh could come to power.
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Absolutely nothing, the Monroe Doctrine, stated in his 7th annual State of the Union in 1823, was that the United States did not recognize the right of any European power to exercise military authority on a country in the Western Hemisphere, and that such an attack would be considered an act of war against the United States.  The Roosevelt Corollary was that the United States would exercise Police powers in the Western Hemisphere.  Not only has the Roosevelt Corollary long since been discarded, it applied only to the Americas, unless I was grossly misled in Geography class, Iraq is not a country in North or South America.
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The Truman Doctrine, which dictates that the United States will assist any nation or country fighting communism. The doctrine did not spell out how much or what kind of assistance that will be. We obviously went to war in Vietnam while Cambodia and Laos were limited to financial aid and military equipment. \n\nAll three countries fell to communism and then became some of the poorest countries in the world. All three are now reforming into market economies without the U.S. spending a dime in aid. \n\nIronic isn't it...
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1) the US wanted to get the Japanese back for the bombing of Pearl Harbor\n\n2) the US wanted to intimidate the Soviet Union \n(because there were tensions between the US and the former Soviet Union and the US wanted to show the Soviet Union that it had a new, deadly weapon which the Soviet Union didn't have)\n\n3) Truman justified the dropping of the bomb by stating Japan would not surrender without an invasion that'd cause enormous loss of both American and Japanese lives. At least, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki...no American lives were lost (*rolls eyes*)\n\n\nThe bombing of Hiroshima came first (August 6, 1945), the US dropped the bomb in hopes Japan surrenders.\nSince Japan didn't surrender, 3 days later (August 9, 1945) the US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. \nJapan got the point, surrendered, and World War 2 was over.
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It's always been the one with the biggest toys won, if we didn't have these nasty weapons, we couldn't bluff.  Truman used them, can't remember, was he a democrat???   Now everyone has the capability of bluffing, and we will be the ones to back off, cause we know the other idiots will use what they have against us.
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In November 1983, a NATO manoeuvre code-named Able Archer 83, which simulated a NATO nuclear release, caused panic in the Kremlin. Soviet leadership, led by ailing General Secretary Yuri Andropov became concerned that US President Ronald Reagan may have been intending to launch a genuine first strike. In response, Soviet nuclear forces were readied and air units in Eastern Germany and Poland were placed on alert. Though at the time written off by US intelligence as a propaganda effort, many historians now believe Soviet fear of a NATO first strike was genuine.
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Another example of fascism posing as humanitarianism.  Truman should have threatened to nuke Russia in 1947.  He didn't because he wanted to draw out the benefits from a 50 year Cold War.
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To me it looks like it took the work and foresight of two Presidents.  Truman got the ball originally rolling, but was unable to get the legislative support behind it.  However, Johnso came along 20 years later, breathing new life into the idea and was able to get it passed as part of a plan for the greater good of society in his.\n\n\n1945            Harry Truman sends a message to Congress asking for legislation establishing a national health insurance plan.  Two decades of debate ensue, with opponents warning of the dangers of "socialized medicine."\n\nBy the end of Truman's administration, he had backed off\nfrom a plan for universal coverage, but administrators in\nthe Social Security system and others had begun to focus\non the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security\nbeneficiaries.\n\nJuly 30, 1965   Medicare and its companion program Medicaid,            (which insures indigent recipients), are signed into law by\nPresident Lyndon Johnson as part of his "Great Society."
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You mean in the sense of "The Monroe Doctrine" or the "Truman Doctrine"?  He hasn't issued one.\nIf you mean the attempt to insult our President by placing all the responsibility for all the events of our present six years of his Presidency and give him credit for only the bad ones, I'd call it seditious and cowardly.\nIf you mean his efforts to make clear to a religion gone power hungry, that we will not stand by while they attempt to attack and subvert country after country to their philosophy by force, then I'd say he's done it with subtlety and grace, under fire from some of the least politically-savvy people I have ever seen.\nThe final invasion of Iraq after an eleven-year cease-fire was necessary. Yes, not a peace as we never made peace with Iraq and thus President Bush did not start a war.  Nor did his father, as Saddam invaded one of our allies, who asked us to intervene, we did, pushed the attackers to the border and said, "Leave Kuwait alone."  Instead, Saddam attacked our people, so we pushed him back to Baghdad.  He agreed to stop building WMDs, agreed to U.N. inspections.  He lied, played the U.N., lied to them, claimed he had WMDs to his allies, and the U.N. spent eleven years saying, "For the last time, stop or we might do something serious!"\nBush Doctrine?  Bush invaded a country we were still at war with.  President Clinton invaded two sovereign nations that never attacked us or our allies, along with a number of other nations who didn't respect sovereign rights (Saddam gave his up when he attacked us for defending another sovereign nation, Kuwait, yet still we waited eleven years for the U.N. to do their job).\nI am not about to bad mouth President Clinton.  I suspect there were very good reasons for it that we will never learn, and in addition, I treat our Presidents with respect (I wish people remembered how to do that)!  Was President Clinton "bad" for doing so?
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1950\nPresident Truman sendt 35-man military advisory group to aid French fighting to maintain colonial power in Vietnam.\n\n1954\nAfter defeat of French at Dien Bien Phu, Geneva Agreements (July) provide for withdrawal of French and Vietminh to either side of demarcation zone (DMZ) pending reunification elections, which are never held. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy (from 1954 onward) sent civilian advisers and, later, military personnel to train South Vietnamese.
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Cold War, term used to describe the post-World War II struggle between the United States and its allies and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its allies. During the Cold War period, which lasted from the mid-1940s until the end of the 1980s, international politics were heavily shaped by the intense rivalry between these two great blocs of power and the political ideologies they represented: democracy and capitalism in the case of the United States and its allies, and Communism in the case of the Soviet bloc. The principal allies of the United States during the Cold War included Britain, France, West Germany, Japan, and Canada. On the Soviet side were many of the countries of Eastern Europe—including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, and Romania—and, during parts of the Cold War, Cuba and China. Countries that had no formal commitment to either bloc were known as neutrals or, within the Third World, as nonaligned nations (see Nonaligned Movement). \n\nAmerican journalist Walter Lippmann first popularized the term cold war in a 1947 book by that name. By using the term, Lippmann meant to suggest that relations between the USSR and its World War II allies (primarily the United States, Britain, and France) had deteriorated to the point of war without the occurrence of actual warfare. Over the next few years, the emerging rivalry between these two camps hardened into a mutual and permanent preoccupation. It dominated the foreign policy agendas of both sides and led to the formation of two vast military alliances: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), created by the Western powers in 1949; and the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact, established in 1955. Although centered originally in Europe, the Cold War enmity eventually drew the United States and the USSR into local conflicts in almost every quarter of the globe. It also produced what became known as the Cold War arms race, an intense competition between the two superpowers to accumulate advanced military weapons.
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No. It could seem that way because of Truman's policy of communist containment. Actually Kim Il Sung song-and-danced Uncle Joe Stalin into believing that an invasion of South Korea from the north would be a pushover, and only take a couple of months to prosecute. He also convinced Stalin that the USA would not retaliate to save South Korea.
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Perhaps you're thinking of the Monroe Doctrine, issued by Monroe in 1823. The Doctrine claimed the Western Hemisphere pretty much under the control of the U.S., and that we would defend other countries in it against intrustion by European powers. \n\nThere's also the "Good Neighbor" policy under FDR, which is similar.
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Truman was in office during the Korean War. Eisenhower was the president after Truman.
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Answer #1 is partially correct.\n\nHarry Truman created the Truman Doctrine, which basically indicates that the U.S. would assist any country or movement fighting communism. How much assistance was not specified though. Although the Truman Doctrine was not a direct treaty with South Vietnam, the doctrine and several incidents put the U.S. into a position of assisting South Vietnam with or without a treaty. \n\nFew remember that Ho Chi Minh was a renown communists when he asked Truman for assistance to remove the French from Vietnam and Indo China. That in mind, Truman would have been a hypocrite if he backed Ho Chi Minh and the communists against our French allies. This and other issues made our initial involvement in Vietnam and our support of South Vietnam a noble cause. However, the massive escalation of our involvement over the years that followed is questionable. \n\nThe U.S., South Vietnamese AND the North Vietnamese governments are all involved with cover-ups and misleading information about why the war had to drag on for so long and why so many on both sides died. Going further into this is not an issue of the question though.
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A good, friendly man who lived in a cabin beside Mt. St. Helens. Mr. Truman didn't believe that the mountain would ever hurt him, and he didn't want to leave his home. He dismissed the authorities when they came and told him St. Helens was going to erupt. He sat down on the steps, and he said, "If this mountain is going to blow up, I'm going to sit here and let it take me. I have lived in this house all my life, and I am not going to live anywhere else".\nAnd thus was the end of Mr. Harry Truman and his cats, living on the slopes of a very angry volcano.
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It was Harry Truman's call.