Truman. With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. This is the policy that allowed the US to get engaged in the Korean War, the Vietnam War and other proxy war during the cold war. In the same time, the Truman Doctrine affected America’s foreign policy made it turn to the policy of containment which had the main idea of keeping Communism where it was and could be interpreted as a movement to stop the Communism from further …show more content…
"McCarthyism: Political Repression and the Fear of Communism." Social Research 4(2004):1041. eLibrary. Web. 08 Jun. 2017. http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/curriculumca/do/document?urn=urn:bigchalk:US%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B106037051] It was not until he attacked the Army in 1954 that his actions earned him the censure of the American Senate. This was a sign prevailing the justice by the U.S. Government and it also comforted the people which were still suffering from witch hunt brought by the Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and the