The Truman Doctrine And The Marshall Plan
The Truman Doctrine and The Marshall Plan
Ideological and practical significances
After Harry Truman proposed the idea of a European Recovery Plan to the Congress, it was taken further by General Marshall.
General Marshall joined office in January 1947 as the Secretary of State.
Soon after General Marshall met with Stalin and came back to realise the urgency for American actions in retaliation.
Marshall proposed aid to Europe on a vast scale, and invited the Europeans to respond.
The way the Marshall Plan was proposed, no one perceived it as an anti-Communist movement except Joseph Stalin.
General Marshall made it clear that this European Recovery Programme was laid out to help both East and West Europe.
However, Stalin did not believe …show more content…
• Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage by Joseph Persico • Roosevelt built espionage into the structure of American government • Discusses Roosevelt’s involvement in intelligence and espionage operations
-FDR wanted to bomb Tokyo before Pearl Harbor
-A defector (someone who abandons one's country or cause in favor of an opposing one) from Hitler's inner circle reported directly to the Oval Office
-Roosevelt knew before any other world leader of Hitler's plan to invade Russia
-Roosevelt and Churchill concealed a disaster costing hundreds of British soldiers' lives in order to protect Ultra, the British code breaking secret
-An unwitting Japanese diplomat provided the President with a direct pipeline into Hitler's councils • In addition also discusses to what extent Roosevelt was aware of the fate of Europe’s Jews prior to the Holocaust & whether Roosevelt knew in advance of the Pearl Harbor attack • Roosevelt manipulated, compartmentalized, disassembled, and misled • He once said “I never let my right hand know what my left hand does” • Roosevelt created America’s first Central Intelligence Agency (the CIA, previously called the OSS, Office of Strategic Services) • Some say there were spies in Roosevelt’s White House
Ideological and practical significances
After Harry Truman proposed the idea of a European Recovery Plan to the Congress, it was taken further by General Marshall.
General Marshall joined office in January 1947 as the Secretary of State.
Soon after General Marshall met with Stalin and came back to realise the urgency for American actions in retaliation.
Marshall proposed aid to Europe on a vast scale, and invited the Europeans to respond.
The way the Marshall Plan was proposed, no one perceived it as an anti-Communist movement except Joseph Stalin.
General Marshall made it clear that this European Recovery Programme was laid out to help both East and West Europe.
However, Stalin did not believe …show more content…
• Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage by Joseph Persico • Roosevelt built espionage into the structure of American government • Discusses Roosevelt’s involvement in intelligence and espionage operations
-FDR wanted to bomb Tokyo before Pearl Harbor
-A defector (someone who abandons one's country or cause in favor of an opposing one) from Hitler's inner circle reported directly to the Oval Office
-Roosevelt knew before any other world leader of Hitler's plan to invade Russia
-Roosevelt and Churchill concealed a disaster costing hundreds of British soldiers' lives in order to protect Ultra, the British code breaking secret
-An unwitting Japanese diplomat provided the President with a direct pipeline into Hitler's councils • In addition also discusses to what extent Roosevelt was aware of the fate of Europe’s Jews prior to the Holocaust & whether Roosevelt knew in advance of the Pearl Harbor attack • Roosevelt manipulated, compartmentalized, disassembled, and misled • He once said “I never let my right hand know what my left hand does” • Roosevelt created America’s first Central Intelligence Agency (the CIA, previously called the OSS, Office of Strategic Services) • Some say there were spies in Roosevelt’s White House