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This 3 page paper looks that the address given to congress by President Truman on the 12th of March 1947 which marked a change in US foreign policy. The content of the address is briefly considered and the speech is examined in the context of the events and the time and the meaning it was conveying. The bibliography cites 1 source.
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their need for financial aid in order to remain free nations. The speech starts with a statement regarding a request from Greece, appealing for financial and economic assistance. The main
thrust of the speech is the need for America to provide assistance to Greece, as well as Turkey, given their poor economic condition and their position in terms of the
global threat of communism. The US is portrayed as the only nation that has the ability to support, with the argument that the aid is important to protect the free
world against communicate. The global political situation at the time has shifted since the end of the Second World War, with the new perceived battle for the US being
the fight against communism, embodied by the United Soviet Socialist Republic (also known as the USSR or the Soviet Union). The political relationship between the US and the USSR was
poor with little common ground, a situation that led to the cold war and the arms race. The model of communism was seen as a totalitarian model that imposed
the will on the ruling minority on the citizenship of a country against their will. This model was diametrically opposed to freedom and respect for the individual and was seen
as posing a major threat to democracy and freedom and would deny people under those regimes basic freedoms. The US believed that the USSR needed to be contained in order
to prevent further growth and accumulation of power. The way that the Yalta agreement had been breeched in the Eastern European countries of Bulgaria, Poland and Romania, where the communist
regime has been forced upon them was seen as evidence of the way that the Soviet Union was enforcing its will and acting as an aggressor. Truman notes that the
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