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.
1 March 12, 1947. The âTruman Doctrine,â outlined in a presidential speech to Congress, makes it U.S. policy to protect nations threatened by communism.  June 5, 1947. In a speech at the Harvard commencement, Secretary of State George C. Marshall calls for an American plan to help Europe recover from World War II.