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 In order to contain Communism, President Harry S. Truman issued the Truman Doctrine in. 1947, which provided aid to Greece and Turkey. The. United States gave aid to those countries, specifically, because it felt they were most threatened by Communism.