But the other side of the coin would be, inevitably, the flowering of crime and corruption around the gambling business.
The speech promised monetary aid and military advisors to Greece and Turkey, but the doctrine was expanded worldwide as part of the Cold War to cover assistance to all nations threatened by communism and the Soviet Union, involving the US with western Europe, Korea and Vietnam among others.
The Truman Doctrine was part of containment. Under the Truman Doctrine the U.S. gave Greece and Turkey $400 million in economic aid to help these nations resist Communism or what President Truman called armed minorities or outside pressures.orea became divided along the 38th parallel with North Korea being supported by the Soviet Union and China while South Korea was supported by the United States and eventually the United Nations when North Korea invaded South Korea to start the War.