The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

2021 ◽  
pp. 159-162
Author(s):  
Martin McCauley
Keyword(s):  
Marshall Plan ◽  
Truman Doctrine

Fits and Starts

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-59
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Heiss
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The North ◽  
Truman Doctrine ◽  
Transmission Of Information ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
State Domination ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter deals with the term of the Committee of Information from 1947 to 1949, which introduced a variety of proposals for accountability. It points out how solid Western state domination of the General Assembly and the states' manipulation of UN procedure prevented much of the proposals for accountability from being accomplished. It details the importance of the Cold War in shaping discussion of the UN role in the nontrust dependent territories as the Soviet bloc worked to use colonialism as a propaganda weapon against the West across UN forums. The chapter outlines proponents of an activist UN role in the Chapter XI territories built on the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Transmission of Information to advance a variety of proposals for accountability. It looks at the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade, creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and other international developments that marked the superpower confrontation in Europe.

Organic Lives

2019 ◽  
pp. 142-174
Author(s):  
Christina Luke
Keyword(s):  
Organic Agriculture ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
Lake Basin ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
International Policies ◽  
Truman Doctrine ◽  
Water Diplomacy ◽  
Development And Management

In this chapter, I offer critique of development diplomacy in Bin Tepe, the cemetery of Lydian kings and Turkey’s largest tumulus burial zone. The programs of the TVA, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and USAID promoted individual identity and sovereignty through private landownership that eventually led to entrepreneurship in organic agriculture. These organic fields are located in Bin Tepe. I juxtapose heritage policies and international recognition of cultural and natural heritage for Bin Tepe and the Marmara Lake Basin with those of the EU and the robust organic agricultural lobby in Turkey. This analysis shows that tacit approval for organic olives, building on the legacies of US water diplomacy, directly contributed to the erasure of archaeological data. Today the quagmire of organic agriculture versus cultural heritage presents a nexus of tensions that demonstrate the need for long-term planning and harmonization of regional, national, and international policies of development and management.

The British Foreign Office and American Foreign Policy, 1947–48

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
Truman Doctrine ◽  
The Us ◽  
British Policy ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
British Foreign Office

On 21 February 1947, the US Government was informed of Britain's decision to terminate aid to Greece as from 31 March 1947. This produced a flurry of activity culminating in President Harry Truman's address to Congress on 12 March 1947 in which he requested $400m. aid for Greece and Turkey and pronounced the Truman Doctrine, thereby commiting the United States to the worldwide containment of Communism by means of American aid to nations threatened either by Communist insurgency from within or by Communist aggression from abroad. Debate on the Greek-Turkish Aid Bill and on the implications of the Truman Doctrine was one of the important sources of Secretary of State George C. Marshall's speech at Havard University on 5 June 1947 which initiated the idea of the Marshall Plan, the four year programme (1948–52) of American Aid to sixteen European nations designed to build up the economics of these countries and to lessen the prospect of Communism gaining strength within them. Was Britain's sudden withdrawal of aid from Greece determined simply by financial weakness, or did British policy have a more positive and subtle aim, namely to induce the United States to commit itself decisively to a policy of containment in both its political and economic form? The British Foreign Office papers for the late 1940s, as well as the papers of other government departments such as the Treasury, which are now open as a consequence of the thirty year rule, facilitate a better understanding of British policy in 1947–48 and of the British view of American policy in those years, in particular with regard to the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.

Henry A.Wallace as Presidential Candidate: “Am I in America?”

2021 ◽  
pp. 056943452110197
Author(s):  
Per Magnus Wijkman
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Military Training ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Truman Doctrine ◽  
Democratic Action ◽  
Progressive Party ◽  
Universal Military Training

Henry A. Wallace challenged the bipartisan foreign policy of President Truman in 1948. The Progressive Citizens of America opposed Truman’s “get-tough policy” (the Truman Doctrine, loyalty investigations, Universal Military Training, and the Marshall Plan) and founded the Progressive Party. Other “liberals” formed Americans for Democratic Action and supported Truman, who claimed that the Progressive Party was a Soviet construction. Wallace refused to participate in segregated meetings during his campaign in the South and was violently attacked. He advocated the need for federal measures to prohibit segregation, discrimination, the poll tax, and lynching. Wallace was resoundingly defeated but proved right in the long run: military means could not solve social problems. Instead, it spread hatred of the United States in many countries. The 1948 election determined U.S. foreign policy for over 50 years, resulting in missed opportunities to improve housing, education, and social security at home, which still has repercussions today. JEL Classifications: N42, F50

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

1974 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Warner
Keyword(s):  
Marshall Plan ◽  
Truman Doctrine

scholarly journals THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE, THE MARSHAL PLAN AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE SOVIET-RUSSIAN RELATIONS

2017 ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
C. Kaygusuz ◽  
I. V. Ryzhov
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Truman Doctrine ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Aid Programs ◽  
The Cold War

The article is devoted to the history of elaboration, adoption and implementation of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan in the context of the Soviet-Turkish Relations. The authors observe these two key US external policy’s initiatives of the beginning of the Cold War for the analysis of the influence of geopolitical confrontation between the superpowers on the state of relations between Moscow and Ankara. The economic aid programs were significant leverages of the US influence on shaping the postwar system of international relations, which impacted decisively on the Turkish postwar foreign policy, especially toward the USSR, and predetermined to a large extent its further policy in the Cold War. The current article considers the reasons for rapprochement between the US and Turkey stands on the relations with the USSR, analyses the process of elaboration and adoption of aid plans for Turkey and the outcomes of their implementation. The article explores the origins of the US-Turkey cooperation based on sharing the common stance on confronting Moscow and can be used as a source of information on the Russian-Turkish relations problem in historical context.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document