During the Cold War from 1946 to 1990 the United States had formed a policy called the containment policy which was adopted by President Harry Truman. The containment policy was a doctrine uniting military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to turn back communism and to insure that America would hold the leading role in world affairs. Many people felt that if Franklin Roosevelt had lived he could have settled tensions between the Untied Sates and the Soviet Union because Truman lacked the diplomacy talent that F.D.R used so often. Truman stood strong against communism were as F.D.R. would have made an effort to keep peace between the two superpowers. Foreign policy advisor George Kennan stated that the future of democracy depended on two possibilities: “either the break up of communism or the gradual mellowing if the Soviet powers.” Truman applied this ideology throughout his administration. The United States declared its right to save other countries from communism through the Truman Doctrine (the basic ideology of containment). In 1947 there was a civil war in Greece and Turkey. Great Britain was supplying economic and military aid to them until the war became too costly. Due to the fear of the Soviets from taking over the Untied States sent aid to the Greeks and Turks crushing the rebel movements. The Truman Doctrine inspired the Marshall Plan in June of 1947. It was a European recovery program aimed to “reduce hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos and to restore the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and as Europe as a whole.” However, indirectly it wanted to relinquish any and all hope for the communist and socialist bids for power throughout Europe. In result the United States sent 13 billion dollars to the 17 countries in Europe for economic aid between 1948 and 1951. More than half of the aided money went to West Germany, France, and Great Britain. A capi...
