Topic+4+RAFT+15+Describe+The+policy+of+U.S.+containment+as+America’s+response+to+Soviet+expansionist+policies+including+any+of+the+following+-+->+Truman+Doctrine,+the+Marshall+Plan,+and+NATO

Topic 4 RAFT 15 Describe the policy of U.S. containment as America's response to Soviet expansionist policies including any of the following: Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and NATO

The U.S. Marshall plan was established in order to give aid to countries that could come under attack from communist governments like Russia.

They planned to stop the spread of communism.

Truman Doctrine is the common name for the Cold War strategy of containment versus the Soviet Union and the expansion of communism

The Marshall Plan was the United States reaching out to countries in Europe devastating by the war, offering economic aid and hoping to spread democracy and stop communism.

President Harry S. Truman asked for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey and established a doctrine.

                                                              He also explained that he intended to send American military and economic advisers to countries whose political stability was threatened by communism.

NATO was formed on April 4, 1949, joining together the United States and some countries of Europe in an alliance against Russia. NATO is an alliance of democratic nations.

NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and they tried to set up treaties between two feuding countries such as the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The NATO has a collective defense which gives support to mutual countries if they're under attack.

NATO’s first supreme commander was Dwight Eisenhower, president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Eisenhower’s position gave the United States a leading role in NATO. Exports were a small factor in the American economy; much of the Marshall Plan aid would be used by the Europeans to buy manufactured goods and raw materials from the United States. NATO originally formed to defend the west against communism. NATO stands for, North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NATO tried to make peace between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The main idea of this policy was to stop the spread of communism and create peace between countries that are and aren't communist.

The doctrine was first promoted by President Harry Truman, as he was addressing the U.S. congress on march of 12, 1947.

The Marshall Plan gave economic aid to Western Europe to strengthen their empires or governments so that it is harder or impossible for the Soviets to take over.

Truman's Secretary of State, announced details of what became known as the  Marshall Plan or the European Recovery Program (ERP). Marshall offered American financial aid for a programme of European economic recovery. [|Ernest Bevin], the British foreign secretary, made it clear he fully supported the scheme but the idea was rejected by the Soviet Union. A conference was held in Paris in September and sixteen nations in Western Europe agreed on a four year recovery plan.

The Marshall Plan was created in 1947 to give financial aid to countries to prevent them from becoming communists.

Marshall’s plan was drafted by Charles E. Bohlen, who was the current State Department official and would later become the ambassador to the Kremlin.