The Truman Doctrine and the Domino Theory

A. Plan of the investigation\nThis historical investigation pass on discuss about the pursual question: To what extent was the U.S. lucky in containing communism in Vietnam during the Cold War firearm still maintaining order in the US? The investigation result examine: external and Containment Policies, The eye mask system, The Vietnam War and The Anti-War Movement. Government documents, speeches, academic journals, and newspaper articles are in the eldest place used to investigate the U.S. battle and whether or not they were boffo in the containment of communism. In this investigation two primary sources were utilised to evaluate their origins, purposes, values and limitations. The first source will be The Truman Doctrine, by Harry S. Truman. The stand by will be The form of Dominoes speech by Dwight Eisenhower.\n\nB. Summary of Evidence - Foreign Policy and Containment Policies\nThe Truman Doctrine\nThe disseminate of communism from Greece to jokester was the mai n fear of the U.S. Government after(prenominal) the Greek Civil War.\nTurkey was already reliant on Great Britain and the United States embolden Truman was willing to invest in $400,000,000 of assistant money to stay the spread of communism in Greece and Turkey. Truman also needed the acclaim of Congress to send the war machine over to Greece and Turkey to aid in the reconstruction. This document was truly important because Truman was saying that he would offer help countries who were freeing to follow a classless system so that he could contain communism.\n\nThe Domino Theory\nIn a librate conference on April 7, 1954, president Eisenhower emphasized the necessity of dealing with the communist holy terror in Southeast Asia; Korea, Indochina. Dwight Eisenhower emphasized the threat of the spread of communism with an simile about a line of dominoes falling, how it is a take away reaction. There was a fear about how if Greece/Turkey had travel to communism then was it mathematical for that communism to spread through and through all of Europ...