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| President Truman addressing Congress with the Truman Doctrine. |
Truman asks for Congress's approval to aid Greece, as it had been ravaged by invasions and war and he believed Greece was close to being taken over by communist revolutionaries and would lose its self-determination of America didn't step in to help. Greece also wanted America to send administrators that would help them use their resources effectively to improve their government. Truman also supports sending aid to Turkey, which, although not as badly damaged as Greece, deserved it because it played an important role in keeping peace in the Middle East. Truman believed aiding them would help preserve democracy in those two countries as well as the ones around them. He believed America was the only nation in a position to help their struggling governments after World War II.
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