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  2. Greek and Turkish Assistance Act of 1947 - Wikipedia

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    The bill was received fairly positively by the public and politicians. It received mostly bipartisan support from members of Congress, [11] and the opposition that did arise due to the bill regarded if the aid should be administered through the United Nations to Greece and Turkey, rather than directly from the US to Greece and Turkey. There ...

  3. Truman Doctrine - Wikipedia

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    Truman argued that if Greece and Turkey did not receive the aid, they would inevitably fall out of the United States' sphere of influence and into the communist bloc, with grave consequences throughout the region. The Truman Doctrine was informally extended to become the basis of American Cold War policy throughout Europe and around the world. [5]

  4. Turkish Straits crisis - Wikipedia

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    This intimidation campaign was intended to preempt American influence or naval presence in the Black Sea, as well as to weaken Turkey's government and pull it into the Soviet sphere of influence. [4] The Straits crisis was a catalyst, along with the Greek Civil War, for the creation of the Truman Doctrine. [2]

  5. Foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration - Wikipedia

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    He also announced the Truman Doctrine, a policy of aiding countries in danger of falling to Communism. Pursuant to this doctrine, Truman convinced Congress to provide an unprecedented aid package to Greece and Turkey, overcoming opposition from isolationists and some on the left who favored more conciliatory policies towards the Soviet Union.

  6. Saving Freedom - Wikipedia

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    Saving Freedom: Truman, The Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization, the fourth book by MSNBC Cable news host and former U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough, recounts the historic forces that navigated Harry Truman to begin America's historic battle against the threat of Soviet Communism and how a little known president built an enduring coalition that would use the Truman Doctrine to ...

  7. Harry Truman’s world-changing decision: the atomic bomb and ...

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    In the midst of the bloody fighting on Okinawa, Truman received a direct warning that the planned two-phase invasion extending at minimum through the following year, 1946, could cost as many as ...

  8. Cold War (1947–1948) - Wikipedia

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    The Cold War from 1947 to 1948 is the period within the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the incapacitation of the Allied Control Council in 1948. The Cold War emerged in Europe a few years after the successful US–USSR–UK coalition won World War II in Europe, and extended to 1989–1991.

  9. 80th United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    The 80th Congress did however pass several significant bills with bipartisan support, most famously the Truman Doctrine (on Greece-Turkey anti-communists aid in developing Cold War with former ally Soviet Union), the Marshall Plan (aid for devastated Europe after World War II), and the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947 on labor relations (over Truman ...