John D. Rockefeller, he created Standard oil and used a system of horizontal integration, which really hurt the consumer but it made him rich. He was basically a terrible person but a genius businessman (he would have been a trillionaire by today's standards) :)
The main purpose of the Truman Doctrine was "<span>to contain Soviet expansion," since it stated that Soviet aggression would be met with American pressure, since this was during the Cold War. </span>
The coup leaders were hard-line members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who were opposed to Gorbachev's reform program and the new union treaty that he had negotiated which decentralized much of the central government's power to the republics.
