Truman's speech warned of stiff actions after Britain warned to withdraw primary economic and military support to the Greek government in its efforts to fight against the Greek Communist Party and failure to prevent Turkey's spillover. He said that United States will come in and take the role of leadership in Europe and around the World ( Richard M. Freeland, 1972) . The United States promised support to Turkey in order to help maintain national integrity in Turkey thus promoting stability in the Middle East. America promised over $400million to support foreign countries in economic crisis. During the second cold war, America provided about $341billion to help fight and protect democracy and freedom.
He talks of nations in the world and that they have the right to choose and should not be influenced to make their own choices. By this, he came up with a new definition of the Cold War as conflicts between bad and good, democracy and dictatorship and oppression and freedom. Consequently, Truman's doctrine led to the collapse of Monroe Doctrine which was the most powerful and formation of Marshall Plan which contained communism that assisted European economies to get going and was ratified in 1948 by the House of Congress ( Richard M. Freeland, 1972) .
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The military aid which was sent to warring nations abroad through a principle of collective security and helps to promote good allies' network and friendly states which US provided free military aid and this later led to the development of NATO ( Gaddis, 2013) . His presentation in America of the Communism threat globally led to the collapse of anti- Communist hysteria which was supposed to end in Red scare of the 1950s. The doctrine instead intensified the war by the Russians who saw America as a big threat to the Soviet Communism. Finally, this Doctrine led to the evolvement of the American policy of containment according to Historians.
References
Gaddis, J. L. (2013). Was the Truman Doctrine a Real Turning Point? Foreign Affairs , 52 (2), 386. doi:10.2307/20038055
Richard M. Freeland (1972). The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and Internal Security, 1946–1948. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1972. Pp. xii, 419, xii. $10.00. (1972). The American Historical Review . doi:10.1086/ahr/77.5.1520-a
