Select the correct answer. What was the major purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
Ο Α.
to contain Soviet expansion
OB.
to rescue Greece and Turkey from communist takeovers
Ос.
to end the Korean police action
OD.
to provide economic stability in Europe
O E. to provide reasons for US nationalism
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when world war i broke out across europe in 1914, president woodrow wilson proclaimed the united states would remain neutral, and many americans supported this policy of nonintervention. however, public opinion about neutrality started to change after the sinking of the british ocean liner lusitania by a german u-boat in 1915; almost 2,000 people perished, including 128 americans. along with news of the zimmerman telegram threatening an alliance between germany and mexico, wilson asked congress for a declaration of war against germany. the u.s. officially entered the conflict on april 6, 1917.

sitting in that one chair where he could get shot at was his worst decision.