truman doctrine (1)

• when was the truman doctrine?

  12th march 1947
• what president made a speech to congress?

  us president truman
• what was the doctrine?

  that the usa would provide aid to any country that took a stand against communism
• what was the goal of this doctrine?

  to contain communism in the east and stop it from spreading
• why was the speech issued?

  the president feared eastern european and middle eastern countries would fall to communism - DOMINO EFFECT
• who delivered the iron curtain speech?

  winston churchill march 1946
• what was the iron curtain?

  an invisible division in europe with communism in the east and capitalism in the west
• what was the marshall plan?


  money administered to european countries to prevent them seeking out communism
• who stopped communist nations from accepting marshall aid?

  josef stalin
• what was the money used in marshall aid spent on?

  encouraging trade with the us and a program was implemented to increase productivity
• what did the soviets think of the doctrine and plan?

  they saw it as a direct threat to eastern europe and viewed it as ‘economic imperialism’ from america