What was the primary goal of the Truman Doctrine? A To provide financial aid to all nations recovering from war. To spread democracy and Western ideals globally. To contain communism and prevent its spread to additional nations. To reunify Germany and end the Cold War tensions.

The primary goal of the Truman Doctrine was to contain communism and prevent its spread to additional nations. The Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy principle announced by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in 1947, which stated that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. The doctrine was specifically aimed at containing the spread of communism and providing aid to countries threatened by Soviet expansion, such as Greece and Turkey.