Essay On The Marshall Plan

Before Truman was the 33rd president of the United States he was the vice president for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. During the 1944 presidential elections Roosevelt chose Truman to be his running mate because his former vice president, Harry Wallace, was not well liked. He was only vice president for 82 days when Roosevelt died of a stroke. When Truman came into office America was in the middle of the Second World War. The war had already been going on for six years before Truman became president. Truman was a Senator and was the leader of a committee in the Senate investigating the National Defense Program when he was vice president. Some of the most influential people in Truman’s life were his advisers. They helped him make the biggest decision that he has ever had to make. That decision was to drop the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During Truman’s presidency he made a decision that ended World War Two. He decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan. Truman chose to do this because Japan would not surrender from the war. On August 6, 1945 American bomber pilots dropped an atomic bomb named “little boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion killed 80,000 people. Radiation exposure killed thousands of people who were not killed by the blast. Three days later on August 9th “fat man” was dropped on …show more content…
The Marshall Plan gave Europe over $13 billion to help rebuild their economy. Truman said this was necessary because communism thrives in countries with a weak economy. The Marshall plan was named after the Secretary of State George C. Marshall who came up with the idea. The plan went on for four years and it began in April of 1947. The United States was hoping to rebuild war-devastated regions, make Europe as strong as it was before the war, take down trade barriers, and prevent communism from coming to