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.
This doctrine impelled the US to aid any nation militarily as well as economically if its stability was threatened by USSR or communism. Truman informed Stalin that the US had nuclear weapons. The USSR was also offered aid under this program but they not only refused. the West soon airlifted supplies to Berlin.