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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 was Truman's entry into the Greek Civil War. -
U.S. meet 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone around the hemisphere -
The Marshall Plan set a precedent for helping countries combat poverty, disease and malnutrition