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The Truman Doctrine and the
Marshall Plan
Mr. Ornstein
Willow Canyon High School
IB History of the Americas
Answer:
Who
Developed the Idea of
Containment?
How did Containment Work?
Greece and Turkey
Pro-Western
Governments in
Greece and Turkey were on the
Verge of Collapse
USSR wants Turkish Territory
Soviets Support Communists in
Greek Civil War
Great Britain
Before
WWII Great Britain
Supported Greece and Turkey
Militarily and Financially.
Winter 1946-47 Can No Longer
Afford to Support the Greeks and
Turks
The Fear
Greece
and Turkey Would Fall
to Soviet/Communist Influence
Near East and North Africa
Were Now at Risk
The Truman Doctrine
March
12,
1947
Policy is
Announced
The Truman Doctrine
400
Million Dollars in Aid to
Greece and Turkey
US Will Give Military and
Financial Aid to Nations
Fighting Communism
The Truman Doctrine
Moral Gauntlet
Bargaining over Territory is Out of the
Question
Conflict is Democracy vs.
Totalitarianism
Free Peoples vs. Oppressed
Soviet Union Must Change its Policy or
its System Must Collapse
Who was George Marshall?
Chief
of the
Army During
WWII
Sec. of State
Under Truman
Well Respected
Conditions in Europe
Economic
Conditions were Bad in
Europe After WWII
Fear that Communism Could
Spread in the poor Economic
Conditions
Helping Europe
Recovery=Containing Communism
European Recovery Act/Marshall
Plan
European Recovery
Program/Marshall Plan
Announced at Harvard on June 5, 1947
Stops Communism by attacking
poverty, hunger, despair
13 Billion/Equal to 100 Billion Today
Not Straight Cash/Credits to Purchase
Aid Offered to Stalin
Marshall Plan
Stalin and the Marshall Plan
Stalin
Refuses to Accept Money
Does Not Allow “Iron Curtain
Countries” to accept either
Isolates Communist Bloc Even
More
Tightens Control on Eastern
Europe
Success of the Marshall Plan
Western European Economies Improve Greatly
16 Countries Helped
25% Improvements in Some Countries
European Industries recover: chemical, engineering,
steel
Reduces poverty
Increases cooperation between Western Europe and
the United States
Communism Never Gets Popular
Criticisms/Revisionist
Did
Truman Show a True Picture of
the Communist Threat in Greece
and Turkey?
Did Truman Provoke Stalin?
Was Truman Looking to Save his
Poll Numbers?
Criticisms/Conservative
Did
Truman Unconstitutionally
Increase Presidential Power?
Did Laissez-faire Capitalism Help
Western Europe more than the
Marshall Plan?
What is one revisionist criticism of
the Truman Doctrine?
Ticket Out the Door
What
was the goal of the
Marshall Plan?
What two countries were
helped by the Truman
Doctrine?