The Truman Doctrine and the Domino Theory

A. Plan of the probe\nThis historical investigating exit discuss about the pursuance question: To what extent was the U.S. roaring in containing communism in Vietnam during the Cold War epoch still primary(prenominal)taining order in the US? The investigation volition examine: unconnected and Containment Policies, The domino opening, The Vietnam War and The Anti-War Movement. Government documents, speeches, schoolman journals, and newspaper articles are primarily used to investigate the U.S. exponentiation and whether or not they were flourishing in the containment of communism. In this investigation two primary sources were apply to evaluate their origins, purposes, values and limitations. The inaugural source will be The Truman Doctrine, by Harry S. Truman. The bite will be The wrangling of Dominoes speech by Dwight Eisenhower.\n\nB. Summary of Evidence - Foreign Policy and Containment Policies\nThe Truman Doctrine\nThe allot of communism from Greece to flop w as the main fear of the U.S. Government later on the Greek Civil War.\nTurkey was already reliant on Great Britain and the United States sanction Truman was willing to invest in $400,000,000 of sanction money to interrupt the spread of communism in Greece and Turkey. Truman also needed the blessing of Congress to send the legions 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 passing play to follow a republican system so that he could contain communism.\n\nThe Domino Theory\nIn a complot conference on April 7, 1954, prexy Eisenhower emphasized the necessity of dealings with the communist scourge in Southeast Asia; Korea, Indochina. Dwight Eisenhower emphasized the threat of the spread of communism with an likeness about a haggling of dominoes falling, how it is a checker reaction. There was a charge about how if Greece/Turkey had move to communism then w as it realizable for that communism to spread with all of Europ...