The simmering tensions between Greece and Turkey, two NATO allies supposedly, over territorial claims in the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean have once again thrust the Atlantic alliance’s ...

Truman used Greece as a shining example of his policy of geographically limited war. It might be useful to consider the new Truman principle as applied to Greece—if that civil war had turned out ...

Greece had to present this map until 2021 but it did not do so to avoid friction with Turkey. The European Court convicted Greece for its failure and after the conviction it gave Greece a deadline to ...

On March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman delivered an address to a joint session of Congress. Truman used the address to ask Congress to deliver emergency aid to the Greek and Turkish governments ...

And if Greece went, the United States feared that Turkey could be next, giving Moscow control of the Eastern Mediterranean including, potentially, the Suez Canal, a vital global trade route.

In March 1947, he announced a new doctrine to contain communist expansion southward across Europe by giving $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey.

Harry S. Truman (middle) with British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (left) and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference (July 17 to August 2, 1945). Public Domain The 1947 Truman Doctrine was crucial ...

His advocacy for US engagement in Greece set the stage for the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which would become key components of American foreign policy in the early Cold War. In 1947, he ...

Following Truman's speech, Congress approves $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey. Many historians will consider this the start of the Cold War. June 5, 1947 ...

Article citations More>> U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (1947) Truman Doctrine: Recommendation for Assistance to Greece and Turkey. 80th Congress, House of Representatives. has been ...