Point IV program

President Truman and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

The Point IV program was an economic rebuilding program that the President of the United States Harry S. Truman announced in his inaugural address on January 20, 1949. It derives its name from the fact that it was mentioned as item 4 of Truman's foreign policy objectives.

The Point IV program was not limited to any region. The aim was to get the economy going after the Second World War . The Marshall Plan was adopted on April 16, 1948 for the reconstruction of Europe . As part of the Point IV program decided by the Advisory Committee on Foreign Aid on June 23, 1950 , bilateral agreements were concluded between the USA and several states in South America as well as Israel and Iran. The Point IV program was critical to the economic development of Israel and Iran (asl-e chahar) after World War II.

On October 19, 1950, an agreement was signed in Tehran between the American ambassador Hery F. Grady and Prime Minister Hajj Ali Razmara as part of the Point IV program, with which an Iranian-American commission for rural development was established. As part of the Point IV program, 12,000 primary and high school teachers were trained, 200 new schools were built and 200 schools were refurbished.

Under President Dwight D. Eisenhower , the program lost its importance, as the economic agreements concluded under the Point IV program were supplemented or replaced by new, sometimes more far-reaching agreements.

Web links

• http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hstpaper/hardybh.htm
• http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/ringimage15.htm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Farian Sabhani: The Literacy Corps in Pahlavi Iran (1963-1979) - Political, Social and Literary Implications. Ph.D. School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) University of London. Lugano 2002, p. 210.