4 Impacts Of The Truman Doctrine

Question 1

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Answer 1

Creation of the zhdanov doctrine and cominform
- viewed world in two camps the imperialist west and democratic east, echoes Churchill’s iron curtain speech, culturally Sovietise eastern European states.

Question 2

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Answer 2

Leads to the Marshall plan, made in response to the Greek civil war between monarchists and Greek communists and growing fears of lt.
- $13.5 bn to 16 countries for 5 yrs.
-Paris peace agreement, recipients vs non recipients, drawing of ‘battle lines’
-Shape us policy for next 25 yrs
-ossification of 2 distinctive blocs

Ca= did not create tensions or result in an immediate effect. Stalin claimed dollar imperialism and tightened grip, but there was not an immediate crisis. George Kennan’s lt, ideological difference in wartime conferences

Question 3

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Answer 3

Shapes us policy for the next 25 yrs
- ca = George Kennan long telegram , William l Clayton’s report, churchills speech.

Question 4

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Answer 4

Ossification of 2 distinctive blocs
- manifestation of the ideological division of cw in war conferences