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Truman asks Congress to support Greece and Turkey

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In an address to a joint session of Congress, Truman requested aid for Greece and Turkey and framed the request in universal terms: that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples resisting subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressure. The immediate cause was Britain's announcement that it could no longer sustain its commitments in the eastern Mediterranean. The lasting consequence is the framing rather than the money — a specific regional problem was presented as an instance of a global division, which set the pattern for the next four decades.

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  2. In an address to a joint session of Congress, Truman requested aid for Greece and Turkey and framed the request in universal terms: that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples resisting subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressure. The immediate cause was Britain's announcement that it could no longer sustain its commitments in the eastern Mediterranean. The lasting consequence is the framing rather than the money — a specific regional problem was presented as an instance of a global division, which set the pattern for the next four decades.
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  4. Containment
  5. Truman asks Congress to support Greece and Turkey
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  7. Containment
  8. NSC-68
  9. Truman asks Congress to support Greece and Turkey
  10. Marshall proposes European economic recovery
  11. The Berlin blockade and airlift
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  13. Supports the origin and the original meaning of containment as Kennan stated it publicly, and the later divergence between his conception and its implementation. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; the phrase quoted in CONCEPT_CONTAINMENT is from standing knowledge of a much-quoted article and should be checked against the published text.
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