Explain The Key Events In The Cold War Under President Truman

Summarize the key events in the Cold War abroad under President Truman.

Truman worked so hard to clean up the postwar disorder and establish a new international order. He helped to do many things during the postwar, like creating the world bank and the international monetary fund, and he also do something that I felt was very extravagant, which was him funding and helping rebuild Japan under General MacArthur. The prosecution of the Nazi war criminals took place at the Nuremberg trials and this is around the same time Truman introduced and summarized the Marshall plan. This Marshall plan had more than twelve billion set aside for the rebuilding and reindustrialization of Germany. Even factories in Western Europe were beyond their prewar manufacture levels within just a couple years, because the plan was so thriving.

Summarize the key events in the Cold War abroad under President Eisenhower.

Eisenhower had a huge desire to stop the arise of

on June 17, 1972. The scandal made it to the top levels of American government, and the effort of Nixon to try and cover it up is what ultimately leads to Nixon's striking resignation on August 9, 1974. I thought it was very ironic that Nixon felt the need to lower himself to such performances because he won the 1972 election in one of the most overpowering mainstreams in history. It also seemed highly doubtful that anything discovered at the Watergate Hotel would have made that much of a difference anyway. With him resigning that proved off top that he was a victim the whole time. I think the main consequences for the Watergate scandal would be the loss of respect for the congress and U.S. government but primarily the loss of respect for the presidency. And for