Robert L. Hines
Nolan Higdon
History – 121
July 22, 2014
Final Report When America came out of WW II it was the greatest power country in the world. America had created the most powerful Navy and Air Force, and accounted for most of the world’s manufacturing capacity 1}. New institutions were created that promise goals with that of the United Nations and World Bank. The leaders all felt that security in the Nation depended on the security of Europe and Asia with America growing globally in the economic Reconstruction 2}. The containment and Truman doctrine played the role President Roosevelt thought America should remain friendly with the Soviet Union after WW II. This only seemed that the two most powerful nations would at some point have a conflict 3}. That confrontation began during the cold war in the Middle East. You see after WW II ended Soviets began taking over parts of Northern Iran, with plans of bullying the country into letting them into their oil fields 4}. In 1946, American diplomat George Kennan informed the Truman administration that you can’t deal with the Soviet government in a normal way, Kennan felt the Russians couldn’t be moved from controlling eastern Europe 5}. In his message that would become known as the containment, which the U.S said they would prevent anymore expansion of power in the Soviet Union. With the Truman doctrine and America convinced, that Stalin couldn’t be trusted, America took full responsibility of providing leadership to the rest of the world. With this Truman put the policy of containment into effect. He rolled out the heaviest weapons in the arsenal in the defense of the world; the US had the responsibility of supporting “freedom loving people “when threatened by communism 6}.

The Truman doctrine talked to Americans in a language, they understood as post-war world. Truman was successful in