Therefore, America began to be afraid and began seeking drastic measures such as rebuilding Germany as a buffer zone against Soviet influence.
America's mis-interpretation of Stalin's actions led America and its Allies to be afraid. The fear was seen with Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain Speech- where he stresses for a joint Anglo-American alliance against the USSR. America rejected the idea but the end result further strained relations between America and the USSR, which the USSR responded to Churchill's Speech "Capitalist impearilism is a call for a war on the USSR-. So, America begins using methods to "contain- Soviet influence. .
By 1946 the Americans started to adopt the policy of containment'. On March 12, 1947, President Truman gave an address to Congress that would later be known as the Truman Doctrine. He called for $400 million to aid to Greece and Turkey in quelling guerrilla uprisings, some of which were communist. More significant than the request itself was the broader aim of Truman's speech. He articulated the concept that would shape the entire Cold War: containment. Truman asserted that the Soviet Union, like Germany before it, sought world domination.
As William Chafe has written of containment policy: ".containment ceased to be a specific and precise response to a particular situation and, instead, became a diffuse, universal rationale for resisting any change in the international status quo.The result was a massive distortion of reality-. The Truman Doctrine divided the world into two kinds of political systems: Free and Oppressive. To not contain the Oppressive would be to invite another Hitler to take power. This was the first major method the USA used to contain Soviet influence.
The Truman Doctrine soon evolved into the Marshal Plan-June 1947. The Marshall Plan provided the second half of the Truman Doctrine. It was the other pea in the containment pod. At a Commencement speech at Harvard University on June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C.
