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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