Comparison Of President Truman And The Expansion Of The United States

Through the 1880s and 1890s, the United States was spreading its wings all over the globe in order to establish a bigger economic and military presence throughout the rest of the world. At home, the idea of expansion became popular, especially among upper-class Americans because of increased business overseas. This expansion was often aggressive; President Roosevelt once said that war is an opportunity for expansion, which the United States did several times going into the 20th century.

The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan promised aid to all countries willing to stand up to the communist threat. This showed that the USA was heavily against the USSR’s plan to spread communism and would have created a lot

Truman believed that if Russia got Greece and Turkey it would then get Italy and France and the “iron curtain” would extend to western Ireland and to the United States. Arnold posits that Truman’s views were excessive. Stalin never challenged the Truman Doctrine or western dominance in Turkey, which was under U.S. military guidance, and Greece. Arnold states, “ [Stalin] provided almost no aid to the Greek rebels and told Yugoslavia’s leaders in early 1948 to halt their aid because the United States would never allow the Greek Communist to win and break Anglo-American control in the Mediterranean” (221). Arnold believed that President Truman more often than not narrowed rather than broadened his options. Truman’s insecurity also reinforced his liking to view conflict in black-and-white terms, to categorize all nations as either free or totalitarian, to demonize his opponents, and to ignore the complexities of historic national conflicts. In sum, despite Truman’s claim to have “knocked the socks off the communists,” he left the White House with his presidency in tatters, military spending at a record high, McCarthyism rampant, and the United States on Cold War footing at home and abroad.

It stated that the United States would provide Military, economic and political assistance to all of the democratic nations that were under the threat of authoritarian forces. The Truman Doctrine reoriented the United States foreign policy to possible intervention in conflicts beyond the United States.

Turkey, another country that had been dependent on British aid was also being pressured by the Soviets into granting them base and transit rights through the Turkish Straights. Worried about the growth the spread of communism and the growing influence of the Soviets; President Truman appealed to a joint session of congress to authorize $400-million in emergency aid to the Greek and Turkish Governments and the dispatch of American civilian and military personnel to those countries. In his Speech; Truman said “I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures”. This would be known as the Truman Doctrine and it would be the foundation of the post-war American foreign policy throughout the Cold War. The Policy of Containment also sprung from the Truman Doctrine. This new foreign policy stood in stark contrast to the isolationist foreign policy that the United States had held in the past. Instead of avoiding international affairs and conflicts around the world the United States would become more proactive in the affairs of the world to promote its interest and to combat the influence Soviet

President Truman Doctrine 1945–1953 Contain the expansion of communism, presumably everywhere. Truman Doctrine 1947 announced on the 12th of March 1947 in response to Greek civil war and communist threat in Turkey, Truman asks Congress to approve $400 million in aid to both countries, and they accept, sets a precedent of US help to threaten states through economic means (Woolsey, G. C.2008).

 To help counter soviet expansion, President Truman came up with a policy in 1947 known as the "Truman Doctrine".  In this plan Truman says we should support and aid countries that are trying to be a free people. This particular address was to aid Greece and help them survive as a free nation.4  In Truman 's address to Congress he wanted to aid Greece and Turkey by providing them with free gifts of funds, and military/civilian resources to help build their economy and reconstruction of their cities.5  This would ultimately push out any Soviet control. This doctrine consequently became the groundwork for American foreign policies.

Harry S. Truman, named after his maternal uncle, was born on May 8, 1884 in a small town known as Lamar, Missouri. A place where he would live until 1890 when his parents, John and Martha Truman, would move the family to a place known as Independence, Missouri. Independence was a county-seat with a miniscule population of just 6,000 citizens. Among those citizens was a great diversity due to the town’s location America’s west and south. Due to this location, many southerners had migrated down to it leading to an abundance of southern culture.

The progress of expansion in the United States is one filled with complicated, complex, and irrational decisions. Geographically, North America changed dramatically by having the landmass grow, through discovery, by at least doubling what it was before. The European discovery of North America, the Mississippian shatter zone, Louisiana Purchase, and the Mexican-American war are all historical events that changed the path and future of America dramatically, through the making of controversial decisions.

The Nazis had occupied Greece during World War II. There were two resistance groups in Greece that had been fighting the Nazi regime. One resistance group supported the Greek monarchy, and the other resistance group advocated for communist rule. When Greece had been liberated from the Nazis, disputes surfaced between the two resistance groups. The communist group refused to join a new government and rebelled against the monarchy. The United Kingdom had gotten involved to put down the rebellion. However, these rebellions continued. In 1947, the United Kingdom could no longer afford to provide military and financial support to Greece. The United States was almost certain the Soviet Union had been funding these communist rebellions in Greece. Marshall had believed the United States was the only country able to provide economic aid to Greece seeing as how World War II had damaged the economies of other nations. President Truman would later meet with congressional leaders to explore what ought to be done about Greece. Those he had met with feared Soviet domination would extend into Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. In March of 1947, President Truman had asked Congress for $400 million in economic aid for Greece and Turkey. He would also announce what would be known as the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine had declared it to be the foreign policy of the United States to assist any country whose stability was threatened by communism.

The expansion of the United States into the territory west of the Mississippi River began with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the nation with a great deal of $15 million from France. While, American development was influenced by westward expansion, the purchasing of more land created controversy. Many disagreed with the idea of expanding and taking over land because Indians who already occupied the land wasn’t included in the agreement that was made and the Constitution did not have any thing that supported this idea. Although, the Louisiana Purchase showed Jefferson 's ability to make a logical political decision, it was opposed by Federalists who questioned the purchase and his ability. They were oblivious to the fact that United States was going to become powerful and progress with growth. United States ' expansion was a fulfillment of manifest destiny because the U.S. was obligated to spread and so it was necessary, inevitable and desirable that the Americans did this.

The belief of the Manifest Destiny, that caused the westward expansion and led to many wars between all different types of people and the different countries that used the land. The expansion allowed for the lifespan to increase, the economy blossomed, and the main goal was accomplished which was getting occupation of America from ocean coast to ocean coast.

For states all through the nation in the not so distant future, there 's a typical topic: an atmosphere of instability coupled with a feeling of veritable open door. In the midst of stresses over the national government 's disappointment to help financing for framework, numerous states are making moves to create that subsidizing all alone. Congress appears to have stalled—once more in its endeavors to change the movement framework, however states are sanctioning bills intended to give new rights to some of their undocumented inhabitants. Also after a period in which advanced education projects confronted sensational cuts, states are returning cash to those projects some of them more productively than previously. Here are 10 major issues

The US tried to limit the Soviet Union’s expansion of communism in the Middle East and Mediterranean by protest and loans. The US and Great Britain protested against Russian troops in Iran because of the oil fields in the Middle East while the foreign ministers met in Moscow in December 1945. At the meeting, they also agreed that the day of Soviet withdrawal would be 1 March 1946. As Tito, the Yugoslavian communist, gains more control, he tries to obtain Triste but with protest didn’t. Lastly, the US loaned $25 million to Greece in order for them to stabilize their economy and prevent the communists from trying to take

The United States foreign policy during the Cold War was specifically to prevent Communistic influence from the Soviet Union to the rest of the world. With areas like, China, Africa, Korea, Vietnam, and Eastern Europe already in the communistic view, “containment” policies were put in place. Containment was first heard of in the early 1940’s by a U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan. He proposed a strategy to stop communistic views. The first action of containment was with Harry S. Truman and his effort for aid in Greece and Turkey, addressed at a joint session of Congress. Truman showed how both Greece and Turkey needed assistance from the United States, and with this assistance, can help contain communism away from Greece, therefore having a better position on Turkey. The next act of containment was shortly after the Truman Doctrine, and it was with George C. Marshall’s speech in front of Harvard Grad Students. He proposed the Marshall Plan, a post-war European program to help aid countries that were destroyed during WWII. This was one of the strategies used during this time. Once Dwight