Biography of John Steinbeck John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902. He spent most of his life in Monterey County, which is the setting for much of his fiction.
President Truman agreed to aid Franceâs efforts to regain control over Vietnam because he Select one: a. supported the spread of colonialism. b. feared the spread of communism in Southeast.
Stalin was invited but seeing the Plan as a US plot to undermine the Soviet Union he forbade Cominform countries to take part. Truman asked Congress for $17 bn, and Congress (after the scare of the collapse of Czechoslovakia in March 1948) authorised $13 bn.oon after the Truman Doctrine promised to support free peoples (March 1947), General George Marshall went to Europe. He was shocked by what he saw. Europe was ruined and after the coldest winter in record starving. Marshall told Truman that all Europe would turn Communist unless the US helped.