Compare And Contrast The Truman Bad And Bad Decisions

Truman and Bad Decisions

At the beginning of WWII, Theodore Roosevelt was president of the U.S.A. However, during the war Harry Truman was forced to take over for his late predecessor. He was the 33rd president in 1945 - 1953 (Harry S. Truman). During this time, the Germans were defeated. At the end of World War 2, Hitler’s last offensive was the Battle of Bulge. He tried to surround American forces in Bastogne. The U.S. ended up winning the battle and the war came to a conclusion on VE-Day, where Germany finally surrendered. The question left after this success was whether or not the U.S. should bomb Japan. President Truman had to take the responsibility with such decisions. During his presidency, he developed new policies that would determine decision

It started with the Truman Doctrine foreshadowing the issues that U.S. would get involved in. Flashing back to the past, the way Truman dealt with Japan also foreshadowed his policies and failure as a president. Later on, his policies and actions drag the U.S. into the Cold War. His actions at the beginning of his presidency foreshadowed the trouble he would bring the nation into. Truman started setting people up for his policies when he created the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine was set in place in 1947, early in Truman’s presidency. It was a speech. “With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces” (U.S. Department of State). Within his speech, he slyly insisted that the United States needed to help people in communist states and fight communism. In the words of the Truman Doctrine, it became “the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures” (U.S. Department of