Truman Doctrine

[TheAsianinvasion4554]

Do I have permission to use the audio form this on my website for national history day?

[daanio0]

@sylwa111 Ok, I have to admit, that's true. But still, the Americans almost ruined their own country because the tried to clear all the communists. So I think it still isn't far to blame America for not saving his country...

[InflictedHQ]

@BuzzE77 yes thank the Americans for allowing china to become communist

[daanio0]

@InflictedHQ Ehm... I don't want to be rude, but the Americans tried to "save" your country from the communists. But you own people chose to be a communist, and America just wasn't able to kill all communists in your land. What you are saying here, is that you blame America for not having enough power, to save your country... It's just like when your dog ran away, you blame your Neighbour for not noticing... Kind of strange, isn't it?

[sylwa111]

@daanio0 Are you saying that the Americans tried to "save" the Vietnamese from communism as well? Think. why would a country spend millions of dollars on another one? For their own benefit. They did not try to save the people from communism. They wanted them to become capitalist to create a greater market.

[SPOILEDDOG2]

hi



[jkropfreiter]

It's fascinating how some people manage to shoehorn their moronic views on politics and race into any discussion on any topic, no matter how unrelated. Just an observation. :P

[Antifraud]

Truman sounds like he has brought Europe right back where it started before WWII, fighting the Communists. Great move, removing MacArthur, if he was so concerned about Communism. Like it or not, Hitler's attack on the murdering Communist Stalin's Russia was the only thing that prevented his complete Communist take over of Europe by a matter of weeks. Zionist Truman's only goal is to create an illegitimate state of Israel against the warnings of the British and US State Dept. Ended any peace.

[TheNoony1]

Thanks for posting this!!



[dudewat212]

such an underrated man...

[MThompson237]

It was the Communist Russia who beat the Nazi's and saved Europe from being Fascist.

[historatia]

Wonderful political propaganda line. It was all about American funding of it imperialist goals than "freedom" and "self-determination" by others. It was all about breaking free of the UN (because America could NOT control it) and establishing on US authority alone the right to intervene whereever it wanted to to promote its global aims.

[jdpage01]

to 35999, can there be true communism when the communist leaders set themselves as representatives of the people and call all the shots? They then became the same as any banker or anyone else. examine the history they are far worse because they then push their idea of what things should be like and will do anything to achieve that goal. See the Ukraine famine, the gulags, etc...

[MrBlazinamazin420]

I greatly appreciate all that Mr.Truman has done, without him i woudln't be able to smoke my weed without having to worry about japs blowing my whole god damn pearly harbor. Thanks for the upload forquignon!

[jack35999]

This is like propaganda for hating on commies, true communism has no authoritarianism. Democracy is closer to communism than capitalism, true communism dictates that ALL PEOPLE have the power, in capitalism it is advocated that the economically elite have the power and should hold decision making power

[guesswho349]

LONG LIVE CAPITALISM!

[olvoro11]

Thank you USA for freeing europe from that communist shit, thank you for assassinating Che Guevara, thank you from freeing us for nazis, thank you for millions of things you have dones for us. LONG LIVE UNCLE SAM!

[DazedDarkAngel]

$400 million dollars? Did they really need THAT much back then?

[afterskoul]

@DazedDarkAngel The purpose of the money given at that time was not to improve the greek economy but to finance the army who was fighting the greek communists during the civi war in greece. Prior the Truman plan responsible for that task was Great Britain that had to withdraw from Greece during its economic recession. Btw: USSR did not intend to establish communism in greece, the greek civil war between communists and the army was soleley a domestic struggle.

[TheFaulksy]

Guys, why cant we all just be friends and st00fs? Jebus.

[DeathlyReaper217]

So I found out he was a freemason. Know any funny conspiracy sites?

[pappamurphy99678]

at the very end, is he saying billion or million?

[DirtballPTACO]

@pappamurphy99678 400 million

[ajb1776]

I recommend a classic book by the legendary historian David McCullough. It is called simply Truman. After reading it, I have a better appreciation for how Truman handled crisis after crisis. He was a great president.

[SmugDarkLoser]

@ajb1776 lol, obviously. Truman was THE MAN. He is also one of the most hated people in US history as well. Pathetic honestly.

[lionvanilla]

Why are negative comments allowed on youtube? Shouldn't some people be suspended for insulting others? >_> *sigh*

[SteveAndrewLangford]

Sure, insulting, then criticizing, then positive comments are banned...

[DirtballPTACO]

@lionvanilla free speech I personally like the negative comments the best

[GamingZen]

@lionvanilla no that directly contradicts freedom of speech.

[Becatsup]

@lionvanilla Freedom of speech? The idea that one person's "rude comment" is another person's sharp but accurate criticism? Treating video posters as adults?

[DoomZappo]

@lionvanilla If that was a reason to be suspended, there would be no more YouTube accounts left

[jfatcar]

@lionvanilla that would be counter to their freedoms and the right to free speech, wouldn't it?

[Mizzou4life1985]

I am very proud to say that Harry Truman is from my home state of Missouri

[whamfan87]

The "Show Me State." A man of his kind sadly won't be seen again. Thanks for posting this video.

[ehunter2]

Truman winning WWII, saving Europe and the world from Communism and setting up the only Democracy in the Middle East ..meanwhile 60 years later we have a empty media generated fraud who cant make a simple decision about anything except what suit to wear on Jay Leno tonight...what a disgrace.

[carlrs15]

As opposed to an entitled, ivy-league oil heir who made a wealth of demonstratively poor decisions through his two terms in office?

[ehunter2]

Isnt it funny how everyone of Obamas burning issues..simply evaporated hmm?

Iran..really did turn out to be..well,evil.

North Korea..really was interested only in blackmail.

Gitmo..wasnt gotten rid of...just moved to Illinois where it became a pork barrel project for Illinois Democrats

Afghanistan? That was Obamas "cause"

the "Good War". And here it is a year later..and week after week goes by without a decision..because guess what?

Obama didnt know a fvking thing about the place.

[atronix]

War criminal, Zionist, devilish bastard.

[gorrards]

what a horrible zionist jew Truman was,

[Alphasam8108]

so were you molested as a child or was your grandfather a Nazi?

Better yet, are you a Muslim from the middle east filling the web with hate?

Sorry, you're just a "caring" liberal anti semite - uch!

[gorrards]

no, none of those.

I'm certainly not a liberal. Anti-semite? Well, I don't hate arabs, but I am starting to dislike Jews more and more the more I learn about them.

I take it I struck a nerve by pointing out that Truman was a Jew??? Hahah.

[Alphasam8108]

If you actually met me in person you would like me because generally I am a good guy, funny because if you then found out that I am a Jew your opinion would suddenly turn?

It stikes a nerve in me to meet anti -Semites that are plain ignorant.

[gorrards]

why would I dislike you because you're jewish? My mothers family is Jewish. Don't just talk generalised bollocks.

I said 'zionist' jew. There is a difference.

[hiskid12]

...actually, Truman was of irish-scottish background and a baptist.

[gorrards]

well, if that's what he says he is to become LEADER OF THE U.S.A then that's what he must have been........ :S

I never knew people were this easily fooled. It truly is a tragedy.

[davidallenroth]

this doctrine got us into the Vietnam mess

[jaralero]

The Truman Doctrine is the Military Industrial Complex Doctrine to provide millions of jobs and take foreign resources: the Imperial American way of life since the beginning of the XXth century.

It has nothing to do with "Freedom", that's why it was accorded that the commies would grab Poland, why the d. elected Mosaddeq was removed by the CIA in 1953, why totalitarian S. Arabia has been US greatest ally in the M. East, and why America borrows millions of $ from Communist China ( #1 lender).

[maiconfaria]

war criminal

[lumpagogo]

We clearly note that Dems and Repubs alike have been throwing around the "F-word" for 64 years-"freedom"--as if we have had some kind of monpoly on it, the copyright, if you will. It is prop-o-gan-da, a bunch of propped up vel-doodle, vlum-doodle to the max. We had to have an omnipresent enemy--the USSR and now the Moslem Horde. It's manufactured bible-itis:

Satan

Socialists

Moslems.

We need them, they need us.

[GreatGrumbledook]

These childish Anglo-Saxons: After the non aggression pact between Stalin and Hitler everyone must have known what would have happen if Stalin gets the chance to expand and conquer; so it would have been wise to contact the saner levels of the military and administrative German leadership in 1943/44 to arrange the downfall of Hitler and a change of alliances to cause the undoing of Stalin as well. But so England and the US proved to be the useful idiots of Stalin who conquered eastern Europe...

[dadecountyhustler305]

What? We were against Hitler long before the non-aggression pact.

[GreatGrumbledook]

@dadecountyhustler305: And who is this we? If it is the US I guess Hitler was all afraid of their politics of isolating if it is Russia (or Stalin and his Soviet Union) it does not matter as Stalin hoped to be the laughing third party in this war and succeeded with doing so half; poor Poland and the rest of eastern Europe were sold to communist tyranny, dissolution and decay for four decades...

[Ja100453]

I Blame  that Trumen doctrin for Korea and Vienam.

[dadecountyhustler305]

True but Communism needs to under stand thats this is where it stops.....

[joejabberoni]

I blame the education system for your poor spelling.

[EyeLean5280]

Thanks for posting this!

[zeroceiling]

Neanderthal logic.

In 1950's-1980's the countries behind the iron curtain all resembled  today's North Korea..a human disaster...both in terms of living standards and human rights...that was USSR!!!

Yeah ..sure blame America...but try a philosophical argument if you can..in your mind..open all the borders around the globe and see where people migrate to..and 9 times out of 10 its..not China...not USSR ...not Iran... not Syria..not Egypt..not Sri Lanka...Its the USA ...enough said!

[lumpagogo]

Those countries would shoot the migrants; only the U.S., against the will of the people, allows 2,000,000 filth in per year. It's true that the filth are becoming a majority, will kick the native-borns out by the end of 2018.

[ajgolfer1]

when did your ansestors come over?

[lumpagogo]

Why do you want that datum, ajjie?

[sadken501]

I think he's saying that if you are an American and not a native American, you are also apart of this majority of "filth" that comes into America yearly, if your ancestors did originate over seas how can you despise these people when the country you are/maybe born in was shaped by migrants? If you are entirely native American I apologize.

[lumpagogo]

That's a tired, shop-worn, specious contention: that Caucasion-Americans should welcome the third-world invasion because our distant ancestors genocided the American Indian. That kite don't fly, sad . One has nothing to do with other.

[sadken501]

You miss my point, and assumed I made another. I never mentioned genocide, that's the officials of the times atrocity. I talk of the families that have flocked there since Europe began colonization of America, and it never stopped, from the Spanish, English, Irish, Italian, to name a few, all throughout history America has been built on the influx of a foreign populace. That was my point, to shut the doors of America goes against its very formation, it is a country formed by the world.

[lumpagogo]

No, the points you pro-immigrinti make are the same prongs of the fork, over and over. We had "Gunboat Diplomacy" to keep out third-worlders until FDR instututed the "Good Neighbor" policy in 1936. We hadn't NEEDED any new influx since the early 1900s. After WWII, there was an anti-Nazi backlash which led to the 1965 laws which incepted the '180' that was completed with the Reagan Amnesty and 'New-Open-Borders' of 1986. Now, we are Kafka. For every new Spanish (etc) in, we are losing 7-8 jobs.

[lumpagogo]

Yes, zero, they do want to get to the lower 48 or Alaska in order to greap all the lifetime benefits: SSI, DPA, Food Stamp, Fuel Stamp, WIC, HUD $, Medicare, Medicaid, clothing allotment from the RCC and National Council of Churches, Govt. cheese handouts, college tuition..etc. Gang membership is also a huge attraction.

[castostarlight]

Fuck Truman. War mongering bastard. He helped establish the terrorizing militant American image that has remained for 70 years.

[cuddlemonster300]

the most hypocritical pack of selfobsessed dickheads in the world.. your all absolute fuckin eegits praising this man and praising the usa or any us president.. wake up and read a book for fuck sake instead of sittin round on yoyr fat arses watchin fox and cnn and any other propoganda shite! FUCK YOU AMERICAN POLITICS.. look what you did and are still doing to Latin America!

[lumpagogo]

The U.S. has 15,000,000 P-Ricans and a combination of 70,000,000 illegal and legal Latin immigrants.

Gashstay-en-zee vous?

[cuddlemonster300]

Fucking arrogant imperial bastard! Typical american president.. support free people my arse.. support tyrants and in some cases communists as long as they play along with american economic policy.. democracy is dead usa is the biggest oppressor.

[Sojourner7ruth]

a very good and intelligent president

[Jantv81]

Harry S. Truman-- my fav. President elect.

[BuzzE77]

Thank you America, for preventing my country and many others from becoming authoritarian communist puppet states. Although we Europeans may disagree with US policy from time to time, we (or at least me) are still grateful to you for liberating us from the Nazi's and protecting us from the Communists.

[lumpagogo]

Doctor Harry Truman had the chance to smash not only North Korea but also the Red Chi-nee. Harry failed to apply the cure.

Why you yellowed out, Doctor Harry?

[rampage819]

not really which Chinese came in to the Korean war Mc' Arther was pushed back the Chinese had about 200 thousand troops, After his loss he wanted a campaign against china, North Korea, and wanted Access to N-bombs, Russia at this time had N-bombs. Truman, Congress saw through the Generals Failure and overconfidence, and didn't want a nuclear war, so Truman was right to pull out of China, and North K, to save the world from nuclear war. Plus the war became unpopular.

[lumpagogo]

The Korean Disaster begat Vietnam which begat Iraq/Afghanistan.

The Rooskies, at that time, were not gonna fight over China. All we did was show the world we were only a shell of what we had been 1941-1945.

Korea: 40,000 U.S. deaths

Vietnam: 60,000 U.S. deaths

Iraq/Afghanistan 5,000+. All these were in vain. Now, the traitors are killing us by immigrant/economic depression--Dems + Repubs = twin towers of evil.

[mikebrightman]

@BuzzE77 suck up. plus, the communists didn't want west euro. after the war, not too many countries looked good.

[afterskoul]

@BuzzE77 You are naive ... But that's a characteristic of your youth..

The Truman Doctrine inaguarated the new grand plan of US foreign policy that would enable all economies to open up and become available to US economic expansionism.

When this wouldn't be possible the americans did everything possible to take control of the given country; the dictatorship in greece and chile, military intervention in vietnam are just a few of the examples of the methods applied to establish 'Pax Americana'

[BuzzE77]

@afterskoul You misspelled "inaugurated".

[guesswho349]

@afterskoul totally correct.

[duvexy]

@BuzzE77 You are welcome. Thank you for thanking us.

[rodnaf]

@BuzzE77 yes you are right. Your country may have ending up as an authoritarian communist state (state capitalism) instead it ended up as an authoritarian "liberal state" (state capitalism).

[jamesdron]

@BuzzE77 Nazis doesn't have an apostrophe is this case.

[BuzzE77]

@jamesdron Thanks, my bad.

[IDeafpool]

@BuzzE77 yeah thank the same yanks who left MY country to be reaped by faggot russians for 40 years. i hope yank hipocrites rot along with their french and british bitches.

[andrelebaron]

He really did do what had to be done in this case. And he did it again in Korea.

[COMPTROL]

siktir ibne!

[ISiiLv3RI]

Truman 2008

[FiREFLYSerenity408]

I agree with you. If there was a Truman Democrat, I would vote for him other than Barack Hussein Obama.

[ciscokid998]

What today's liberals don't understand is the Democratic Party were the original "neo-cons" in respect to halting aggression. Richard Perle (neo-con & former democrat) became interested in politics when he attended JFK'S inaugural speech in 61. "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty".

[Elossov]

There's nothing wrong with communism. The thing is that its principle doctrine, giving the fruit of labour to the workers and granting equality is completely against the intrests of the billionairs which usually control the white house. Stop believing propaganda!

[allupinyourgrillxxx]

it's not communism. it's the dicators that never let it get to its final stages

[Verlch]

Liberalism in the US is communism! Don't let progressive communism of any form take shape in the US!

[allenchampagne]

They said the same thing about the guy giving that speech in this clip. In fact, they called him an appeaser of Communist states.

[Verlch]

Look at the democrats and their polices of destruction. W Wilson, Federal Reserve, FED created Great Depression, FDR gives us socialism, and confiscates our gold, Truman punishes small business forces them to carry unemployment tax for FED created boom and bust cycles. Johnson creates racial strife via civil rights, Carter, more the same, Clinton, where do I start, I'm trying to forget.

The Republicans are borrow and spend, Democommies are tax and spend, pick your evil.

[wilhelmscream85]

And when were we most happy and better as a nation?  The Reagan era?

[Verlch]

Probably when we had the least amount of socialism and materialism shoved down our throats. People would socialize on their front porches.

That would be before minimum wage laws, equal pay regardless of effort put in, medicare, social security.

Socialism should be renamed central governmentalism. Because all they do is increase their power, trample individual human rights, force their agenda, and then give us trinkets. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[lumpagogo]

Ronnie had the chance to confront the Rooskies directly after the downing of that KAL plane. He yellowed out. Then he proceeded to open the borders while at the same time allowing our mfg sector to

bleed 24-40,000,000 jobs. This was the definitive traitor, rivaled only by criminal LBJ.

These social programs are a blip in comparison.

[FlatulenceFox]

Say what you want about him, but he saved Western Europe.

[jsusanmay]

war criminal

[sara101001]

how do i put this vido on a power point if i can???

[redraptor97]

im doing a project on truman.thats the only reason im here.plus I think truman is the best president ever!

[StarFox175427]

same

[dave98503]

Truman has always been an overrated Asshole by Historians. When he left office, he was one of the most hated Presidents, for those people that were alive during his Presidency...which is all that really matters. For some reason, we care about a President's Legacy. Due to this stupid fact, George Bush is counting on the future to rate him as a success rather than helping the poor in America right now. Of course in 1,000 years, Iraq and the Middle East might be better. But not due to him.

[liljman8]

i love truman!!!

[fuktwhiteguy]

Truman was one of the greatest presidents we ever had. Plain and simple. Give em hell, Harry.

[dave98503]

I agree.

[dave98503]

Screw Truman.

Second

worst President

we ever had.

I would have voted for

Dewey. Mcarthy was right, invade China.

[wzweft]

shut your mouth faggot

[454cbb]

You do mean General MacArthur and not Joe McCarthy I hope.

[jadenpilling]

thats a bit cynical.

[colonicvillus]

fdr called stalin his brother

[LazerKidz2]

yeah but that was before Stalin showed his true motives

[Ryguy1450]

Bush said he looked into the eyes of Putin and saw a good guy. what a joke.

[knucklecallus]

It is all about context and setting, context and setting.

[muzzlemaster]

Stalin and Hitler where partners in crime to Poland less we forget that, after WW2 the USA had a total military dominance of the world with the A-Bomb, it was at that time we should have taken on the Soviets as Patton Stated numerous times, and al the grief and death of the cold war could have been avoided...

[littleboy17]

It was Tito who aided the Greek communists not Stalin. This increased tension and rivalry between Stalin and Tito but also increased Yugoslavian popularity throughout communist countries and the world.

[deritpeehs]

sounds to me like much double-talk, and not enough "true" insight.

[Oldfashionedloverboy]

Roosevelt did not favor Stalin, in fact there was much mistrust between them. The Facts of how the Cold War began are still uncertain, many believe it was the misunderstanding of Soviet intentions in Eastern Europe. All the Soviets wanted were buffer countries that would eliminate another German threat, because Hitler did invade the Soviet Union but failed.

[Infofan]

Favor and trust are far from being the same thing, Oldfashioned. FDR sided with Stalin against Churchill to force the British to conduct WWII on terms more favorable to US interests. It was simple expediency, or manipulation, whatever you may prefer.

I doubt that the Americans knew what long-term consequences those short-term concessions to the USSR would lead to...

[Infofan]

Ironic that Roosevelt favored Stalin over Churchill, leading to greater Soviet power and expansion in Eastern Europe, and Britain too weak. And then Truman changed the U.S. stance towards the Soviets, and the Cold War officially began. But I think the conflict was inevitable- and the right side won...

[Luigigorman]

FDR did not favor Stalin, as Oldfashionloverboy stated. He just had to compromise with Stalin to kepp the Soviet Union in the war. Eastern Europe(with which the U.S.S.R. had already set up a puppet government in Poland after the failed operation Barbarossa by Germany)was already lost by Yalta. The idea agreed upon was to give Eastern Europe free elections, but of course, Stalin lied.

[Luigigorman]

*by the Yalta Conference*

[Infofan]

Luigi, the USSR had no choice but to be in the war- they were invaded!

And, yep, Stalin broke his promise about the free elections...but who was so gullible to believe he would suddenly be a champion of democracy?

[Kain5th]

Stalin was essentially the lesser of two evil's in the allies' eyes.

[jewy]

Big mistake. The Greek communists were NOT supported by the Soviet Union. Instead, they were an indiginous pro-democracy party. By helping the authoritarian government destroy them, Truman turned the Greek public against the US. To this day, Greece is the most anti-American country in Europe. In other nations, the Soviets supported various Stalinist parties. But not in Greece.

[craigclarke]

give 'em hell, Harry!