Yet another irony both super powers did not want another war to start but they were plunging themselves into another war the Cold War. ... A more direct method of gaining allies was the Truman Doctrine of 1946 which was used to justify support for any nation that the United States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2 It was the beginning of American policy for the cold war. ... Most significantly the Truman Doctrine also committed the USA to play a big part in world affairs. ... But it was the economic and military polices that the US employed after the ...

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