truman and marshall

• What was the Truman Doctrine?

  -12th March 1947

  -Truman announced he would provide economic help to countries being threatened by communism

  -promised 400 million dollars, sent US soldiers to Greece and Turkey
• what followed the Truman Doctrine? describe it

  -Marshall plan- gave 12.7 billion dollars between 1948-52

  -economic aid to countries hit by war

  -offered money to satellite states, stalin refused
• What did Stalin call the Marshall Plan?

  -Dollar imperialism

  -he thought it was the USA trying to be more powerful and create American Empire in Europe
• what were the consequences of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

  -friendly Grand Alliance now gone

  -USA in direct opposition to USSR

  -Europe divided into Western and East
• What did the Truman Doctrine declare in 1947?

  USA would fight the spread of communism
• How much aid did the USA offer in the Marshall Plan?

  $13 billion
• Why did the USSR oppose the Marshall Plan?

  They believed it bribed satellite states