TRUMAN DOCTRINE

The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy



The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy

Introduction

On March 12, 1947, President Harry Truman was presented before a joint session of Congress to deliver one of the most important speeches in American history. After outlining the situation in Greece, gave what was later known by the name of the "Truman Doctrine", which finally releases the United States to a total confrontation with the Soviet Union, i.e. the Cold War. The United States said, "That could only survive in a world in which freedom to flourish." The president asked Congress to earmark U.S. $ 400 million economic aid and military supplies to Greece and Turkey and to authorize sending U.S. personnel to help rebuilding and to supply their armies with training and proper instruction. Thus, the U.S. began with the containment policy that focused on universal nature and involved a call for new anti-Communist crusade.

Events between the United States and Korea

In Global Cold War and the political dynamics of the interaction of the Cold War, Korea is of the biggest keys for clarification. In the early 1970s Asia based transformation can be obtained from the Cold War. War broke out 50 years, South Korea's leadership of the conflict surrounding the North and South Korea the United States, China, and the secret war, the Soviet Union was enlarged to include in it. A treaty among the doctors of the two Koreas in the United States and China was signed in the form of a doctor unity. This means that a smile from the north-south conflict resulted in buried.

Therefore, the early 1970s, the reconciliation of the United States and China, the United States and the Soviet detente between the two Koreas were more likely to induce relaxation. In fact, the two Koreas and the early 1970s, the impact of a partially alleviate this tension by accepting far had little direct dialogue between North and South culminated in the launch. Since then, North and South in 85 mutual visits of officials of the contact is done through a secret, and even the first reunion of separated families was realized Inter.

Question rises in our mind why in the early 70 mitigation, despite the Cold War, South Asia and the Cold War did not relieve. In order to explain the political dynamics of the following two points I feel that it is important to discussion. First, the global Cold War and the Cold War and South Asia Region of the Cold War with the local 'gap' are a phenomenon. In the early 1970s, global level of Smiles détente by the United States and China in Asia, the Cold War eased by settlement.

Such a change in the international environment changes in the behavior of the North and South Korea imported if the parties choose to adopt a North-South dialogue. Mitigation of the global Cold War, its component parts peninsula facing the same direction as the vector will be served. But that was nothing more than a definitive ...