Truman agreed that the United States would have to step in and support Greece and Turkey. The usual policy of staying out of foreign conflicts unless absolutely necessary was becoming an anachronism.

The bill for aid to Greece and Turkey passed both houses of Congress by wide margins and was signed into law by Truman on May 22, 1947. This was followed on June 5 by the announcement of the ...

President Truman extends the Monroe Doctrine to cover the ... Its course of action is not fixed–the contradictions between the policy announced for Greece and Turkey and the policy being pursued ...

That title belongs to the Truman Doctrine, ... the British government had decided to end all aid to Greece and Turkey, effective March 31, 1947.

He promulgated the Truman Doctrine, which saved Greece and Turkey from quick Communist absorption in the manner of Eastern Europe. He proposed and carried out the Marshall Plan for economic ...

President Harry Truman's proposal of aid to Greece is "a new beginning in world politics," Hans Kohn, professor of History at Smith College told the United Nations Council Forum at Phillips Brooks ...

The Truman Doctrine may have been intended to rouse the public and Congress to national security expenditures, but it ignored the complexity of Greece's civil war, vastly overstated the global ...

To the Editor:Before the Congress starts cutting aid to El Salvador and to those who are fighting for freedom in Nicaragua, its members should consider the words of a great former president of the ...

The Truman ghost is all alive saying even today what it said on March 12, 1946, which started off the cold war in open valor that lasted till the disintegration of the USSR in 1991 when the ...