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AP Success - AP US History: Truman Doctrine

The Truman Doctrine set the stage of the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion...To ensure the peaceful development of nations, free from coercion, the United States has taken a leading part in establishing the United Nations...We shall not realize our objectives, however, unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes...At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life...One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression...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.

The Truman Doctrine, 1947.

Question 1

Short answer

Briefly identify ONE perspective about the United States' role in international affairs expressed in the excerpt.

Question 2

Short answer

Briefly explain ONE historical development after 1945 that led to the United States taking the stance expressed in the excerpt.

Question 3

Short answer

Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event in the period from 1947 to 1980 was a result of the message expressed in the excerpt.

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