Arnold A. Offner and John Lewis Gaddis are the two authors who discuss this topic. Offner thinks that Truman is very responsible for the Cold War and Gaddis blames Joseph Stalin for the start of the Cold War. Offner states that Truman really was not experienced enough with global affairs and was a “parochial nationalist” who did not how to deal with Russia accordingly. Gaddis states in Truman’s defense that Stalin was truly a difficult human being who refused to find middle ground and really was the cause of the Cold War. Honestly I agree with Offner because Truman did handle the situation very poorly and the main cause of the Cold War was the United States not trusting Communist Russia and Communist Russia not trusting Capitalist Americans.
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Ferrell, Alonzo L. Hamby, and especially David McCullough were all men who wrote biographies over the “great president” Harry S. Truman. Ferrell wrote Harry S Truman: A Life in the Missouri press in 1994, Hamby was the author of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S Truman in Oxford in 1995, and David McCullough composed Truman in Simon & Schuster in 1992. Arnold Offner really disliked how these authors made Truman look like a super star and only discussed how great he was and how the Cold War was not his fault. But of course Offner had very different opinions. Offner is quoted describing Truman as a “parochial nationalist” who viewed foreign policy in a very ethnocentric manner and was quick to making very rash decisions to cover his insecurities as a president. Offner also accuses Truman and his administration in being involved in “atomic diplomacy” which was basically a way to use nuclear weapons to threaten other countries. The United States was then the only country to have an A-Bomb and using this to scare Russia into …show more content…
Gaddis’s argument with already blaming other people like Stalin for the Cold War is the start of a poor argument. Gaddis again states more of Truman’s downfalls like how from 1994-1995 Truman’s administration was weak with their responses to the economic and political uncertainties in the post WWII situations. The United States really did try to help the economic crisis by creating the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund which were used to supply money for the rebuilding of Europe’s devastated infrastructure. The World Bank was created to be an international financial organization to provided loans to countries that needed financial assistance for capital programs which after WWII Germany was in great need of financial help to rebuild. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was created by the Truman administration to make standardizing global financial relations and exchange rate and was used to really support other countries in economic strength. Both the World Bank and IMF were scarce and fear was spreading of the United States going into a recession, similar to post
Ferrell, Alonzo L. Hamby, and especially David McCullough were all men who wrote biographies over the “great president” Harry S. Truman. Ferrell wrote Harry S Truman: A Life in the Missouri press in 1994, Hamby was the author of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S Truman in Oxford in 1995, and David McCullough composed Truman in Simon & Schuster in 1992. Arnold Offner really disliked how these authors made Truman look like a super star and only discussed how great he was and how the Cold War was not his fault. But of course Offner had very different opinions. Offner is quoted describing Truman as a “parochial nationalist” who viewed foreign policy in a very ethnocentric manner and was quick to making very rash decisions to cover his insecurities as a president. Offner also accuses Truman and his administration in being involved in “atomic diplomacy” which was basically a way to use nuclear weapons to threaten other countries. The United States was then the only country to have an A-Bomb and using this to scare Russia into …show more content…
Gaddis’s argument with already blaming other people like Stalin for the Cold War is the start of a poor argument. Gaddis again states more of Truman’s downfalls like how from 1994-1995 Truman’s administration was weak with their responses to the economic and political uncertainties in the post WWII situations. The United States really did try to help the economic crisis by creating the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund which were used to supply money for the rebuilding of Europe’s devastated infrastructure. The World Bank was created to be an international financial organization to provided loans to countries that needed financial assistance for capital programs which after WWII Germany was in great need of financial help to rebuild. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was created by the Truman administration to make standardizing global financial relations and exchange rate and was used to really support other countries in economic strength. Both the World Bank and IMF were scarce and fear was spreading of the United States going into a recession, similar to post