Truman Doctrine/ Marshall plan
These plans both had very similar ideas that were based off the idea of containment. The Truman Doctrine was proposed by president Truman and was the thought that the US needs to help the small countries near the Soviet Union so that the USSR could not just go in and takeover easily. This goes along with containment because this is an American attempt to aid countries in east Europe so communism will not spread. The Marshall plan, like the Truman Doctrine, was proposed by George Marshall. The plan provided food, recourses, machines, etc. to help countries that were in ruins from the Cold War. Overall, the US spent over 12.5 billion dollars in east Europe between the two plans.
These two U.S. containment policies did have very similar ideas, just different places. They both aided countries by U.S. support to help nations economy so they did not use communism as a back up plan, removing disaster to remove the threat of communism. They both also did work successfully which was good for U..S containment, while other policies did not work as well.
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