The Truman Doctrine by Samantha Trattel https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm all about the Truman Doctrine that took place during the Cold War en-us 2017-06-01 13:23:45 UTC 2025-10-03 03:21:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Call for Help trattel_so https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174809953 The British requested American help in 1947 in Greece to “defend their conservative client-government in a civil war against leftists” ]]> 2017-06-01 13:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174809953 Would they Agree? trattel_so https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174810098 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]]> 2017-06-01 13:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174810098 How to Help trattel_so https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174810241 Truman wanted to get $400 million to help aid Greece]]> 2017-06-01 13:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174810241 What was Said trattel_so https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174810355
  • 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”

    • ]]>     2017-06-01 13:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174810355     Counter-Argument trattel_so https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174810532
  • 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

    • ]]>     2017-06-01 13:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174810532     Refute to Counter-Argument trattel_so https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174810630 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]]> 2017-06-01 13:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174810630 Was it Successful? trattel_so https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174810747
  • 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”

    • ]]>     2017-06-01 13:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/trattel_so/6wq23m25olhm/wish/174810747