Question 1
Incidents that were influenced by Truman Doctrine:
Containment of the Communism
Ending the war in Japan
Shifting from détente policy to containment policy
Containment of the Communism
The US was to contain communism or the Soviet Union both in Europe and throughout the rest of the world
This containment practice was to be achieved through offering economic and military support to any nation that was being targeted by USSR (Mastanduno, p. 503-531)
America donates a total sum of $13 billion dollars to the European countries that were in need of economic support, in particular against the spread of communism.
Ending the war in Japan
Truman never wanted a communist Japan
The war in Europe had ended before Japanese war
There is growing likelihood of the Soviet Union joining the war in Japan
The Japanese war is, therefore, determined to be concluded before the involvement of Soviet Union who could, in turn, take part in punishing sections of Japan
America ponders between two strategies for ending the war; full-scale invasion and the use of nuclear bombing.
Nuclear bombing is launched both in Hiroshima and Nagasaki-hundreds of thousands perish (Skates, 42-49).
Hundreds of thousands of people die
Japan finally surrenders few days later
Shifting from détente policy to containment policy
The United States’ containment policy is to give support to free individuals who were resisting attempts of subjugation by either outside pressures or armed minorities.
Because these communists (totalitarian regimes) pressurized ‘free people', therefore, they represented threats to America’s international security (Warner, p. 82-92)
America’s international diplomatic policy changed to the containment policy, especially with regards to the Soviet Union.
Work Cited
Warner, Geoffrey. "The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan." (2014): 82-92.
Mastanduno, Michael. "Strategies of Economic Containment: US Trade Relations with the Soviet Union." World Politics 37.04 (2005): 503-531.
Skates, John Ray. The invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb. University of South Carolina Press, (2014): 42-49.
