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A president pledged to help free peoples resist communist expansion, setting the course of policy. That pledge became the:
ATruman Doctrine
BPotsdam Pledge
CMonroe Warning
DAtlantic Charter
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Truman Doctrine
1. The promise was to free peoples.
2. It shaped policy for decades.
3. It is the Truman Doctrine.
_Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 14, The Cold War and Decolonization._
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