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The Senate approved Truman’s call for action and aid for Greece by 67 to 23 votes

With this aid and help from the United States, the Greek government defeated the “insurgents” in 1949, and Turkey also became a “staunch U.S. ally on the Soviet’s border”

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Truman talked about how that this aid was necessary because if communism was put in place in Greece, than how it might spread all over the Mediterranean

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People talked about how the Soviet Union was not too apart of the Greek Civil War, and that there were communist and noncommunist members in this action

Some people talked about how this aid should be supplied by the United Nations and not the United States

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Truman told the war that “If Greece should fall under the control of an armed minority”, “the effect upon its neighbor, Turkey, would be immediate and serious. Confusion and disorder might well spread throughout the entire Middle East”

“I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures”

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Truman wanted to get $400 million to help aid Greece

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Many people in Congress, specifically the Republican Eightieth Congress did not seem like they wanted to help, and the quote by Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan said that Truman would have to “scare hell out of American people” to gain this approval

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The British requested American help in 1947 in Greece to “defend their conservative client-government in a civil war against leftists”