Cold War
The end of World War II marked the start of the Cold War, a long, protracted struggle for economic and military dominance between the United States and the Soviet Union–and also between democratic capitalism and Marxist-Leninist communism. Following World War II, President Truman committed the United States to a policy of "containment" under which the country would not strike directly at communist powers but instead would seek to halt the spread of communism to new nations.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
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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