President Truman's Inaugural Address & Security Directive
plan. The poorer, underdeveloped nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America were to be treated far differently, namely as battlegrounds for the two superpowers.
The third aspect, to "strengthen freedom-loving nations against the dangers of aggression" (Truman 4), was belied by actual American foreign policy. As long as a leader of any country took the U.S. side in the Cold War, the U.S. supported him, whether he was an elected leader or a dictator.
The fourth aspect--foreign aid--was also predicated on the s
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