Truman’s Policy of Containment: As related to the Individual and Socie

Trumans Policy of Containment As related to the Individual and Society Containment in foreign insurance is know as the strategy suggested by George Kennan to prevent Soviet expansionism by exerting envision pressure along Soviet borders. The Truman Doctrine was the name given to a speech President Truman delivered to a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947, in which he proclaimed a new policy and role for the United States in global affairs. Specifically, the president sought $ cd million in economic and military serve upance for Greece and Turkey, two strategic Mediterranean countries threatened by subversive forces supported by the Soviet Union, after the British said a month earlier that they could no longer provide the needed support. To justify aid for Greece and Turkey to a skeptical Congress, Truman placed the situation in the context of broader changes that he adage taking place in global politics. Truman felt that the peoples of a chip of cou ntries had totalitarian regimes forced upon them against their will. At the time the United States had made ghost protests against coercion and intimidation, in violation of the Yalta agreement, in Poland, Rumania, and Bulgaria, but those protests proved insufficient. Truman state that the United States must now be willing to help let off peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to obligate upon them totalitarian regimes. The sweeping language of the speech and the worldwide commitment to assist any state threatened by totalitarianism gained it the status of a doctrine and a lasting policy for the United States. The speech became a declaration of Cold War. The issue was begin... ...hat they wanted to unlike the way it down the stairs a communist regime. As related to the humanities based thought of the individual and society Truman and his policy of containment helped improve the way we look at life and th e status of the world at the time and now. Bibliography - A newspaper publisher to the National Security Council, April 14, 1950, p. 5. - Congressional Record, vol. 93, pt. 2, March 12, 1947, pp. 1980-81. - The Parenthetical Passages from Mr. X George Kennan, The Sources of Soviet Conduct, Foreign Affairs (July 1947), pp. 566-82. - Kagan, Donald. The Western Heritage, 6th edition. pp. 1075-77. - Mansbach, Richard. The Global Puzzle. pp. 112-13. - 5 Apr. 1999. http//www.trumanlibrary.org/photos/av-photo.htm (20 Apr. 1999). - 31 Mar. 1999. http//www.earthstation1.com/Miscellaneous_wwII_pictures.html (20 Apr. 1999).