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    The Truman Doctrine established that the United States would provide military, economic, and political assistance to democratic nations threatened by authoritarian internal or external forces. It marked a shift in US foreign policy from non-intervention to possible involvement in distant conflicts. The doctrine arose from a 1947 speech where Truman requested aid for Greece and Turkey facing civil wars, arguing that communism in these regions could undermine stability in the Middle East and threaten US security. It committed the US to supporting free peoples resisting subjugation and preventing the expansion of Soviet totalitarianism into independent nations.

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    The Truman Doctrine established that the United States would provide military, economic, and political assistance to democratic nations threatened by authoritarian internal or external forces. It marked a shift in US foreign policy from non-intervention to possible involvement in distant conflicts. The doctrine arose from a 1947 speech where Truman requested aid for Greece and Turkey facing civil wars, arguing that communism in these regions could undermine stability in the Middle East and threaten US security. It committed the US to supporting free peoples resisting subjugation and preventing the expansion of Soviet totalitarianism into independent nations.

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    The Truman Doctrine established that the United States would provide military, economic, and political assistance to democratic nations threatened by authoritarian internal or external forces. It marked a shift in US foreign policy from non-intervention to possible involvement in distant conflicts. The doctrine arose from a 1947 speech where Truman requested aid for Greece and Turkey facing civil wars, arguing that communism in these regions could undermine stability in the Middle East and threaten US security. It committed the US to supporting free peoples resisting subjugation and preventing the expansion of Soviet totalitarianism into independent nations.

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    From the U.S. Office of the Historian

    With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United
    States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations
    under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. The Truman Doctrine
    effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, away from its usual stance of withdrawal from
    regional conflicts not directly involving the United States, to one of possible intervention in
    far away conflicts.
    The Truman Doctrine arose from a speech delivered by President Truman before a
    joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947. The immediate cause for the speech was a
    recent announcement by the British Government that, as of March 31, it would no longer
    provide military and economic assistance to the Greek Government in its civil war against
    the Greek Communist Party. Truman asked Congress to support the Greek Government
    against the Communists. He also asked Congress to provide assistance for Turkey, since
    that nation, too, had previously been dependent on British aid.
    In light of the deteriorating relationship with the Soviet Union and the appearance
    of Soviet meddling in Greek and Turkish affairs, the withdrawal of British assistance to
    Greece provided the necessary catalyst for the Truman Administration to reorient
    American foreign policy. Accordingly, in his speech, President Truman requested that
    Congress provide $400,000,000 worth of aid to both the Greek and Turkish Governments
    and support the dispatch of American civilian and military personnel and equipment to the
    region.
    Truman justified his request on two grounds. He argued that a Communist victory in
    the Greek Civil War would endanger the political stability of Turkey, which would
    undermine the political stability of the Middle East. This could not be allowed in light of the
    regions immense strategic importance to U.S. national security. Truman also argued that
    the United States was compelled to assist free peoples in their struggles against
    totalitarian regimes, because the spread of authoritarianism would undermine the
    foundations of international peace and hence the security of the United States. In the
    words of the Truman Doctrine, it became the policy of the United States to support free
    peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside
    pressures.
    Truman argued that the United States could no longer stand by and allow the
    forcible expansion of Soviet totalitarianism into free, independent nations, because
    American national security now depended upon more than just the physical security of
    American territory. Rather, in a sharp break with its traditional avoidance of extensive
    foreign commitments beyond the Western Hemisphere during peacetime, the Truman
    Doctrine committed the United States to actively offering assistance to preserve the
    political integrity of democratic nations when such an offer was deemed to be in the best
    interest of the United States.

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