History Of The Truman Doctrine

1- Truman Doctrine:
The Truman Doctrine was an international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman to help some countries. It was that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from joining the Soviet Union. On March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message was well known as the Truman Doctrine. It was that he asked the Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece.
2- NATO:
It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the Atlantic Alliance, which is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. It was founded by France, Denmark, Canada, Belgium, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, United States of America, and United Kingdom. Also it was founded to deterring Soviet expansionism, forbidding the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong North American presence on the continent, and encouraging European political integration.
3- Martin Luther King, Jr.:
He was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. His legal name at birth was Michael King, but his father was also born named Michael King. His father changed both names on his own during a 1934 trip to Nazi Germany to attend the Fifth Baptist World Alliance Congress in Berlin. It was during this time he chose for him to be called Martin Luther King in honor of the great German reformer Martin Luther. King ...

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...Letter from Birmingham Jail" in response to a public statement by eight white clergymen appealing to the local black population to use the courts and not the streets to secure civil rights. That one of the important events that changed a lot in the way black people were treated.
Malcolm X’s however approach to civil rights was extremely different. He was suspicious of whites, willing to use “by any means necessary” to achieve equality. He felt that American blacks should be more concerned with helping each other. He felt blacks should start by giving the same race self-respect first. He did not agree with what King had to say, he felt that kings dream was not a dream but a nightmare. That was the different and the second important event that occurred in the 1960. It was two people who wanted the same thing just in a different way of thinking how to make it true.