Causes Of The Truman Doctrine

In Fulton, Missouri, on 5 March 1946, Winston Churchill, England’s Prime Minister, spoke the famous words, “An Iron Curtain has descended across Europe.” These words were said before an actual 1,000 mile long fence was erected to divide the communist Eastern side of Europe from the Capitalist Western side. The west knew that Stalin could not be trusted after he lied at the Yalta conference in 1945. After Germany was defeated, Russia wanted to attack Japan, but behind Russia’s back, the U.S. and Great Britain dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan infuriating Stalin. All of these events and more created a great divide between Russia, the U.S., and Great Britain. After the U.S. president, Henry Truman passed, the Truman Doctrine, that stated that any
and the U.K. were at odds with Russia at an all time high and Truman did something that the soviets were afraid of. Truman passed the Truman doctrine that allowed the U.S. to aid countries under the control of an outside authority and to liberate them into a democracy. The reason truman wanted this passed is because he knew how dangerous communism is as he said in his plea to congress,”The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. They spread and grow in the evil soil of poverty and strife. They reach their full growth when the hope of a people for a better life has died. We must keep that hope alive.” This doctrine aided Greece and Turkey by allowing the U.S. to liberate them from soviet control and create a democracy. Sine this doctrine allowed the U.S. to liberate the lands under Soviet control the soviets were deathly afraid and did not know what to do. Due to this fear Russia decided to construct a 1,000 mile long fence that would separate the eastern communism from the western
Russia was obtaining land and countries through the many post-war conferences and as those countries were trying to recover from the war the Russian government was infiltrating those drowning countries. For example, Germany had been completely disheveled and was in dire need of repairs. Russia, having obtained this land, slowly influenced Germany’s leader Khrushchev to break away from the U.S. aid and become a communist society. Also as the Soviets integrated into many of these places they were thinking of what could help Russia as a whole. After the war, Russia, “would lose at least 11,000,000 soldiers (killed and missing)”. This catastrophic number shows the devastation after WW2. Due to Russia’s devastation, they were in dire need of basic things to kind of quick start their country. “The Soviet Union literally occupied, packed up, and shipped out of Eastern Germany, out of much of Hungary and indeed much of Poland, which was not well known at the time, factories, train tracks, horses, and cattle.” Russia had such success because they literally took over the industrial production of these countries, hence causing them to rely on Russia for their needs. Another historian, Anne Applebaum, states that there were 3 key things the soviets did when taking control of a country. First they formed a secret police, secondly they placed trusted local