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The passage is from President Harry Truman’s explanation of the Truman Doctrine.

Totalitarian regimes imposed on free peoples, by direct or indirect aggression, undermine the foundations of international peace and hence the security of the United States. . . . If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world.
–President Harry Truman, March 12, 1947

Based on the passage, which statement best explains Truman’s position?

-The world needed to resist taking action against totalitarian regimes.
-Countries needed to promote peace by joining the United Nations.
-The United States needed to lead the fight against the spread of communism.
-The United Nations needed to take action to protect peace in the world.

Answer 1

In 1946 he seemed hopeful the US would be able to become allies with the Soviet Union and arranged meetings for that hope to come true. "...the Soviet Union, and the United States conferred together in San Francisco last spring"..."These meetings have been useful in promoting understanding and agreement among the three governments." But in 1951 he almost seems dispointed that they did not want to become allies and instead, the Soviet Union fought back. "We had hoped that the Soviet Union, with its security assured by the Charter of the United Nations, would be willing to live and let live. But I am sorry to say that has not been the case."

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Answer 2

The United States needed to lead the fight against the spread of communism.

In response to the rise of Communism during the Cold War, the United States committing politically to containment with the Truman Doctrine, which pledged assistance to Greece and Turkey—and more generally to “any and all countries whose political stability is threatened by communism”—and economically with the Marshall Plan, which pumped over $13 billion of aid and investment into a Europe in dire need of reconstruction.