"American influence in Greece"

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The American influence in Greece is the expression of only a small part of the intervention policy pursued by the United States of America in Europe during the second half of the 20th Century and in the context of the Cold War as it was formed immediately after the end of the Second World War.
American governments up to the outbreak of the Great War remained essentially isolated in their continent, not wanting to engage in European affairs, a decision that was clearly removed from the Monroe Doctrine.
The role of the US in their involvement in international events after the end of the first major war was thus limited to President Woodrow Wilson's initiative to take the lead in the establishment of the CF. However, commercial and economic interests, competition for colonies between the major powers and the rapidly growing complexity of international relations eventually forced the US to look at European affairs. Adequate in this conversion stood the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (event similar to torpedoing the ship "Luzitania" during the First World War) in December 1941, which marked the official entry of Americans into the Second World War.
After the end of the conflict, the US had played an important role in the allied victory and therefore led the effort for the so-called "sharing of the world", along with Great Britain, the USSR and France. With the Yalta Agreement the three leaders of the winners Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin determined their spheres of influence in liberated from Nazi occupation Europe. The US joined Great Britain on the issue of Greece, agreed to join the West.
Since then Greek affairs have gained particular interest in the United States government, especially after the introduction of Doctrine Truman. In the years that followed the American factor made its presence in Greece very noticeable, since American diplomacy essentially defined, if not imposed, all the international directions on which Greek foreign policy was based, with the participation of a Greek expeditionary body in the Korean War (1950-1953) and the country's membership in the North Atlantic Alliance (1952).
But there were other, characteristic aspects of modern Greek history in which it is considered by many that the role of the US proved to be crucial for the development of things, such as the imposition of the military dictatorship 1967-1974, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and the issue of the removal of foreign military bases from the Greek territory.

Philhellenism in the US
During the Greek Struggle of Independence (1821–1829) the international Greek movement reached the US.
Several American volunteers, such as Boston physician Samuel Greenley How, Jonathan Miller, George Jarvis