Truman Document Analysis

To begin with, the time period the document belongs to is the twentieth century. During this time period, the United States has just finished World War II and had many disagreements with the Soviet Union during the Tehran and Yalta conferences. Eventually, the U.S and the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons pointed at each other. The threat of the Soviet Union made many Americans afraid of communism. In 1946, Richard Nixon was part of the U.S House of Representatives; he was assigned to the Select Committee on Foreign Aid and told European countries about the Marshall Plan. To prevent European countries from turning communist, the U.S issued the Truman Doctrine in 1947 which was a speech spoken by Truman promising to take matters into his own hands to prevent communism from spreading and the Marshall Plan which was an economic plan in 1948. That same year, the Soviet Union decided to cut off West Berlin from West Germany in order for the people who lived in West Berlin to abandon their homes. The U.S and Great Britain both dropped supplies of food and fuel into West

The NATO Treaty remains in today`s world the most massive and most important peacetime military alliance in the world. The strengths of the document were that it provided sufficient and detailed information about the NATO Treaty and how it was created. In addition, images were used to give the readers a clear state of how it was like back then. It revealed President Truman as a dedicated leader by providing the treaties he signed. The weakness of the document was that it didn`t give us the opinion of other representatives of the United States on how they felt about the NATO Treaty. The document didn`t include what happened to the other European Countries who weren`t part of the NATO Treaty. Were they under attack by the Soviet Union? Or did they just simply turn communists because nobody aided them when they needed