LAD #29: Truman Doctrine

March 12th, 1947 as the Truman Doctrine was presented infront of the Congress, it called to assist both the Greek and Turkish post World War II, with their problems. Faced with Communistic insurgents attempting control, Greece and Turkey needed help to face the dangerous path they were headed towards. As Greece and Turkey had both recently been liberated by the Germans, were in need of an army and strong infrastructure, without which they might collapse! Truman strongly supports their cause and felt they were in desperate need of aid. President Truman asked Congress for $400 million to send to these two countries, in aid to keep them from what would otherwise be an inevitable collapse. He tell Congress that if Greece can just get supplies and money from the United States they will be able to use it with the help of U.S advisors to get out of the poverty and political corruption that they are in. And it is up to the U.S. to save the Turkish Government since the United Nations are unable to aid them before they can escape from the wrath of Communism. As the Presidents first demonstration of his policy of containment, he tried to do whatever possible to keep Communism from spreading. Although the United Nations’ aid and very goal was to save these governments from the spread of Communism, they were too slow in progress to save these nations so quick to fall to these horrible fate. Truman knew this fact and advised the United States’ Congress to pacify and move as quickly as possible. Had the United Nations allowed the Soviets in their slow progress to take over the Greek Government, the charter would be broken and they as well as other nations would fall in their progress.

LAD #28: FDR's First Inaugural

On March 4th 1933, FDR gave his first Inaugural Address by means of a radio. “Revive and prosper,” he claims, as the promises to remain completely honest with his nation. He gives an inspirational speech which seems to fill the American’s with a sense of hope. He says that no matter how dark the times are, the United States has always and will always make their way back to the light. With so much for these people to really be grateful for, and their happiness, he talks about how work must bring this happiness and warns the people about material things that promote materialistic things. Roosevelt says that one of his biggest plans for the country was to get back on their feet and wants small relief activities planned, acting quickly to repair what was left of the economy before things in the Great Depression were able to get worse. One very positive aspect of Roosevelt’s first steps into his Presidency was that he was never afraid to ask for the people’s help and believed that trading with other nations is secondary to trading throughout our own nation. Roosevelt told us that in order to recover what we’ve lost we must first recover it and go back to pioneering times, or “priming the pump.” The Good Neighbor Policy was another positive attempt he made in his Presidency, which showed that people need to realize more strongly their interdependence on one another. The Constitution Roosevelt felt, was so practical that it could be followed easily and interpreted what he felt was needed.

LAD #27: Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact

For National Policy as nations were trying to sign the pact for perpetual peace, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1929, it was made up that the war must be denounced. Those who are involved with this treaty though, must pursue peaceful solutions to everyday conflicts as well as tasks better defined. They rules did not apply also, if they chose to break it, and in this way there was much hope for the treaties founders that only the nations The Nations could join. Those you signed onto the Pact were such countries as Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain and all of its protectors, Italy, Japan, Poland and it’s even the Czech Republic, and the United States. All of these articles which took place in the proposal would outline difference makes because people understand him better than most. The first article went on to renounce the war as a diplomatic means, while the second states have solved any means which are not peaceful and finally the third for the carrying out of this treaty, and you will learn real discipline real character to get it up the stairs.

LAD# 26: Schenck vs. US

On March 3rd 1919, the Chief Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes delivered a speech of the Supreme Court charging them with a conspiracy they started which violated the Espionage Act. The Supreme Court obstructed the recruitment and enlistment of those serving in WWI and these men had illegally used federal pail to issue the pamphlets, and those accused of having created the pamphlets tried to manipulate men not to enlist. The Secretary of the Socialist Party, Schenk, was in charge of the headquarters of the Party and thus responsible for administering revolutionary materials and a socialist document which went over the 13th Amendment and said the Conscription Act violated the Amendment. The act was one of despotism, which only “wronged humanity.” It asked people to show their rights and their dislike of the draft. The pamphlet stated that the Conscription Act was being used as a part of the government conspiracy and the accused said the pamphlet was went with their freedom of speech, but the court ruled it illegality because of its harmfulness to the US people.