LAD#29- Truman’s Doctrine

In February 1947 Great Britain notified the United States that it could no longer aid the Greek government in its war against communist insurgents. The next month president Harry S. Truman asked congress for $400 million in military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey. He argued in what became known as the “Truman Doctrine” that the United States must support free peoples who were resisting communist domination