"Struggle" for the Eastern Mediterranean : U.S. Foreign Policy towards Greece and Turkey in the years 1945-1953

Abstract

Among the states, the history of which was affected by the Cold War can undoubtedly be ranked both Greece and Turkey. Their geostrategic singularity, accentuated by the outcomes of the World War II, caused that the "struggle" between the United States and the Soviet Union for influence in those countries had considerably contributed to a shift in the course of U.S. foreign policy towards the Soviet Union and to adopting an entirely new strategic concept which was to be called as the "strategy of containment".

Keywords

• Eastern Mediterranean
• Greece
• Turkey
• Truman Doctrine
• origins of the Cold War
• U.S. foreign policy