Gadsden's Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War. ... In 1853, Mexican officials evicted Americans from their property in the disputed Mesilla Valley.
President Harry S. Truman ask Congress for funds for Greece and Turkey, because the two countries were in debt, and there were civil wars between nationalists and communists there. Truman wanted to keep the Communists out basically
