The Truman Doctrine:

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The Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy statement made by President Truman in 1947, which outlined a containment policy against communism. It declared that the U.S. would provide military, economic, and political assistance to any democratic nation threatened by communism. It did not seek to end colonialism or establish a Soviet Union, Eastern European Bloc. It also did not officially bring the United States into the United Nations, as the U.S. was already a founding member of the UN. While it did establish a unilateral approach for decisions concerning U.S. foreign policy, this was not the main focus of the Truman Doctrine.