The Truman Doctrine By George C. Marshall

On May 22, 1947, U.S. President Harry S. Truman proposed the Truman Doctrine, which gave economical and finaical support to the countries of Greece and Turkey, to a joint session of Congress. However, the motive was to combat communism and for the U.S. to have a leadership role in Europe and around the world

Many Americans think of Harry S. Truman as the Missouri farmer who became president, defied convention by speaking his mind, and retired to a life of quiet gentility in his hometown of Independence, Missouri. Truman and his presidency, however, were much more complex. He led America through a difficult postwar transition. He faced Joseph Stalin in the first battles of the Cold War. He assembled the machinery of the national security state. He was the first president to insist that African Americans deserved equal treatment under the law.

As World War 2 came to a close an “Anti-Democratic Iron Curtain” had descended across Europe according to the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Britain and most of the other countries in Europe's’ forces were worn out, and their wealth all but depleted from the challenges of World War 2. Because of this it was almost impossible to stop the spread of communism all throughout Europe. The Truman Doctrine emerged from a speech given by President Truman before a joint session of congress on March 12, 1947. The speech was given because of a recent announcement by

     As tensions in Europe continued to rise support against communist expansion was weakening. The support of Great Britain had weakened as they were faced with post war economic hardship and recent severe weather. Churchill advised Truman that Great Britain would no longer be able to fund anti-revolutionary support. Greece was currently in a battle against revolutionaries supported by communist Yugoslavia who were attempting to over throw the British supported King. With the British withdrawal of aid and support to Greece, Truman saw a long awaited opportunity present itself. He had wanted to establish an ideological anti-communist doctrine and with recent developments in Europe, he was motivated to proceed. In addition Truman felt the Soviet aggression in Europe could have an effect on the United States economy if a growing communist Europe becomes a lost market.

Both the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan were a turning point during this time in history. Most importantly, the Marshall Plan assisted those in need of financial support in Europe. It was a turnoff for the beginning of the Cold War when Truman had offered its support to Turkey and Greece. At that time point, it was certain that Truman was promising to maintain democracy above the communism ideology. He was moving directly against the Soviet Union.

On March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman defined United States foreign policy in the context of its new role as a world superpower. Many historians consider his speech to Congress as the words that officially started the Cold War. The Truman Doctrine was a major break from U.S. historical trends of isolationist foreign policy. His speech led to the Cold War policy of containment. Moreover, it served as a precedent for future U.S. policy of interventionism. According to Stephen Ambrose, an important quote from Truman’s speech, “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by

After world war 2, Europe was in destruction and corruption, therefore, giving a meaning to The Marshall Plan speech because, it dealt with a major situation going on back at that time. Another example why this speech is an effective speech is, that he has all the elements a speech needs. Pathos, Ethos and Logos. He gives emotion and information needed for the audience, grabbing their attention and making them want to listen to what he had to say.

A body or system of teachings related to a particular subject or belief, or a doctrine can be referred to as advocating for a particular principle. Each of the presidents in the United States of America ruled using a doctrine. With the use of a doctrine, a president is able to set goals and attitudes to be followed during their reign. The doctrines are mostly associated with Cold War. The main concern in this article is the Truman doctrine which is associated with the Soviet Union, cold war, and countries like Greece, Iran, and Turkey. In short for a President to be said to pronounce a certain doctrine there was what pushed him and yes one of the main things is bitterness from the Cold war (Kuniholm, 2014).

More aid was given to more industrial powers, since it was believed that their success would trickle down and make the whole area successful. An additional 13 billion dollars was given under the Marshall Plan. One of the main goals of the Marshall Plan was to contain the increasing influence of communism, by the Soviets, in Europe. Through it years of enforcement, to the end of its time, the Marshall plan played a pivotal role in containing communism. After the Marshall Plan ended, the rise of communism in western europe diminished. In terms of its goal, the Marshall plan was a success and it brought prosperity to all who partook in

This can be supported by noticing the positive impacts Stalin's occupation made and by using America as a comparison always noting that America had many more self serving incentives.

Truman had no foreign policy experience but now as the Commander and Chief he was faced with ending the war. During his first six months in office Truman announced the surrender of the Nazi Germans. After their surrender the United Nations Charter was signed. The United Nations Charter was the treaty between the Allies and the Nazi Germans. Truman still had one other problem to deal with and that was the possibility of an attack by the Japanese.

Warren Bennis, a renowned scholar in leadership studies said, “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” (Bennis, 2014) Widely regarded as one of the greatest Generals in U.S. military history and one of the most important men of the 20th century, George C. Marshall was an extraordinary visionary and ethical leader. In this paper I will first, cover how George Marshall used his understanding of pressures for organizational change to transform the post WWI United States Army and how his transformational leadership put his vision into action. Next I will cover how George Marshall was an ethical leader through ethical behavior and how his fair-mindedness helped create and enact the Marshall Plan. Last, I will relate the principle of a visionary and ethical leader to my personal relevance.

All things in history have a place and time. In fact we are history. Had it not been for the previous events in world history, our existence could have been questionable. What would have happened if Hitler did take over the world? Would we be alive today? What if the cold war turned hot at some point? All these doubts tend to help an individual realize that everything in world history happens for a specific reason and therefore everything has its own time and place. One significant event in United States history had been the Vietnam War. However, the Vietnam War that I speak of didnÁ─≥t last from the mid 1960Á─≥s to early 1970Á─≥s. Rather, the events that had lead up to the proceedings of the situation

The control principle, with its ambiguities and imprecision, was a noteworthy system and the controlling origination in American outside approach from not long after World War II until the breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1989–1991, and some may contend that regulation remained an arrangement into the twenty-first century for the United States in managing socialist administrations in Cuba, North Korea, and China. In its most broad structure, control indicates the American exertion, by military, political, and monetary means, to oppose socialist development all through the world. Be that as it may, accurately due to the detachment of the precept and the varying elucidations, including questions about the particular utilization of endeavors to stop socialism, the convention's creator, George F. Kennan, a powerful outside administration officer in 1947 and later a regarded private researcher, frequently restricted critical strategies that numerous American policymakers characterized as the usage of regulation: the worldwide talk of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, foundation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949–1950, the substantial military

This paper will analyze the Marshall Plan from both the international political economic (IPE) liberal and IPE critical theorist philosophies and what a theorist from each belief would say about the Marshall Plan in regards to its economic and political implications. The essay will do this first with an explanation of the IPE liberal theory; followed by an explanation of the IPE critical theory. Next, the essay will describe the background of the Marshall Plan aid and what the Marshall Plan hoped to accomplish in Europe, specifically Western Europe, following the end of the Second World War. The essay will then compare and contrast how an IPE liberal and IPE critical theorist would evaluate the Marshall Plan aid in Europe.