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. The Truman Doctrine was the United Statesâ first definitive Cold War policy. The road to the Truman Doctrine began with the death of Franklin Roosevelt, who had been US president since January 1933.