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What is the Truman Doctrine?Show answer
In March 1947 President Truman asked Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey, framing the request in sweeping terms: the United States, he said, must support free peoples resisting attempted subjugation. This was the public birth of containment, the strategy George Kennan had argued for in his Long Telegram. The doctrine's significance was less the modest aid to two countries than its universal principle: the United States committed itself, in principle, to resisting the spread of communism anywhere. It turned containment from an analyst's recommendation into declared national policy.
What is the Marshall Plan?Show answer
In June 1947 Secretary of State George Marshall proposed a programme of large-scale economic aid to rebuild Europe. Over the following years the European Recovery Program channelled billions of dollars into Western European reconstruction. Its aims were layered: to revive European economies, to remove the misery on which communism fed, to create prosperous trading partners for the United States, and to bind Western Europe into a stable, capitalist and pro-American order. Crucially, the aid was offered to all European states, including the Soviet Union and its satellites, but on conditions of economic cooperation and openness that Moscow regarded as incompatible with its system.
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State two aims of the Marshall Plan. [4 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain why the Soviet Union rejected Marshall aid. [12 marks]
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"The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan provoked the Cold War more than they contained communism." How far do you agree? [20 marks]
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