In March 1947, Truman sent $400 Million aid to Turkey and Greece. This is part of his idea of keeping the world “free” through money or military aid becomes documented in the “Truman Doctrine”. To complement this doctrine, the European Recovery Program ensured that the capitalistic idea will survive in a world where socialism is expanding. As a result, production increased by 35% and the quality of living increased over seas. With the increase, America is able to have a market overseas which it couldn’t do before do the World War. Both the Doctrine and the Plan made diplomatic relation between America and Soviet Union impossible because of the high tension and division between each other. Causing the Soviet Union to control Eastern European with a coup in Czechoslovakia. The distance between each country was a direct result of Truman’s plan to protect free-trade. The Cold War was a result of America wanting to protect commercialism along with expanding its market …show more content…
So rather they divided it into 4 zones. However, this caused major conflict because Truman and Churchill both wanted to rebuild Germany to fight the Soviet Union and to allow America’s market to expand more internationally. After the debate of Germany, US encounter long conflict between itself and the Soviet Union. This concept of expanding American market oversea is similar to the Spanish American War of 1898 because America wished to make these regions independent while its main focus was to expand its markets in Cuba, Hawaii, Philippines, and Puerto Rico. The cold war was caused because of Truman’s desire to expand its market along with its conflict with the Soviet Union over