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.
United States. Truman stated that the purpose of the doctrine was to âsupport free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.â The doctrine caused the U.S. to send $400 million to the region.