Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Truman
Doctrine (1947)
- First in a series of
containment moves by
the United States
- Followed by economic restoration of Western
Europe through the Marshall Plan and military
containment by the creation of NATO in 1949
- In 1950, Truman signed the top-secret policy
plan NSC-68, which shifted foreign policy from
passive to active containment
- To provide
economic and
military support to
nations threatened
by communist forces