On Friday, February 21, 1947, the British Embassy informed the U.S. State Department officials that Great Britain could no longer provide financial aid to the governments of Greece and Turkey. American policymakers had been monitoring Greece's crumbling economic and political conditions, especially the rise of the Communist-led insurgency known as the National Liberation Front, or the EAM/ELAS. The United States had also been following events in Turkey, where a weak government faced Soviet pressure to share control of the strategic Dardanelle Straits. When Britain announced that it would withdraw aid to Greece and Turkey, the responsibility was passed on to the United States.

In a meeting between Congressmen and state department officials, Undersecretary of

The speaker was General George C. Marshall, outlining the Marshall Plan in an address at Harvard University on June 5, 1947. Surveying the wrecked economies of Europe, Marshall noted the "possibilities of disturbances arising as a result of the desperation of the people concerned." He said that there could be "no political stability and no assured peace" without economic security, and that U.S. policy was "directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos."

Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union occupied Germany at the end of the Second World War. Each country controlled a zone. They also occupied Berlin, which was surrounded by the Soviet zone, and divided the city into four sectors.

In 1949, the United States met with its Western European allies to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The terms of the NATO agreement created a mutual defense pact among the United States and Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Luxembourg, Iceland, and the Netherlands. These nations together presented a unified front to the communist governments of Eastern Europe (and also to communist or social democratic minorities in parts of Western Europe). NATO members further restated their allegiance to the United Nations and pledged themselves to the promotion of peace and democratic governance throughout the world. West Germany would joined the alliance several years later.

President Truman had a very difficult task of selling this new alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). George Washington had warned America against "entangling alliances" at the end of his first term. That policy of Isolation had been the prime US foreign

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