The Truman Doctrine was a speech made by President Harry Truman. The purpose of this speech, was to try to fight communism and to stop the future spread of communism among smaller regions and countries.
During this speech, President Truman pledged that the United States would help smaller countries stop the spread of communism, like Turkey.
Countries like Turkey were scared and beginning to not get the help they needed to stop the spread of communism. The United Kingdom had recently went back on helping them before the Truman Doctrine. The United Kingdom was poor and didn't have the funds to continue to help smaller countries, as they had already taken numerous losses during World War II.
This mean't that these small countries were not getting any help for funding and they would soon fall poor, which Truman thought that mean't that communism would spread more easily among poorer regions.
