“How Did Communism Influence Us Foreign Policy After Wwii?”

“How did Communism influence US foreign policy after WWII?” Communism influenced US foreign policy after the war because the US decided they would no longer be isolationist but take a different direction and become nationalist to prevent world leaders like Stalin and Hitler from taking over other countries that were not part of the Soviet Union or Germany. Two policies that the United States put into place where the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.
The first sign of this was the Truman Doctrine. Harry Truman, Clement Attlee along with Stalin all met in Potsdam to discuss how Eastern Europe could move forward without the Soviet Union influence. Truman believed when the meeting was over Stalin was planning a world conquest. As European Countries Struggled against to communist the United States became concerned. The all of this happened because the government of Greece and Turkey asked for help from the United States to help fight the communist take overs. When they asked for help this brought the Truman Doctrine into place that said “to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation conquest by armed minorities or by outside pressures”.
The Truman Doctrine was not enough to contain the spread of communism so later congress approved the Marshall Plan. The Marshall Plan provided a vivid example of how United States aid could serve both ends of economic and foreign policy. The aid helped countries that desperately needed help. The Plan gave countries food, fuel, and money to help build their economy. The good relationship that where built from helping other countries help stop the expansion of communism.
Communism influenced the Unites States foreign policy by forcing the United States to no longer be isolationist and became nationalist by the putting the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan into place to help other countries defeat communism.