LAD #36

LAD #36: Truman Doctrine
        The Truman Doctrine was created during the Cold War in attempts to stop the spread of communism. The U.S. was fine with keeping communism where is was, as long as it didn't go anywhere else. The U.S. offered to give a tremendous amount of money to Turkey and Greece so that they wouldn't fall to this form of government. It has been proved that communism rises from poverty and desperation. Both countries were not doing well and were surrounded by communist countries. The hope was that if we stopped these countries from being poor, they would not fall. This was proved to be very successful and later in the Cold War, Turkey, as sign of thanks allowed us to build missiles on their land.