Truman's Plan Of Containment During The Cold War

The Cold War started after WW2. Harry S. Truman showed off all of his nuclear

weapons and all of the weapons that were amazing at the time. Stalin was offended and

sent in spies to steal the American’s ideas. After that happened, Stalin made his own

weapons. Stalin wanted to be better so he was making twice the power and amount of

nuclear bombs. Harry didn’t really like Stalin because of Stalin’s Communist ideas and

Truman wanted to contain communism but Stalin wasn't going to let that happen.

This was known as the atomic age. In 1950, a National Security Council Report

Known as NSC-68 . Truman’s plan of containment was failing because the USSR was

spreading communist ideas around the world. So, American officials went and
Also began the arms race. In

1949, the Soviets tested an atomic bomb that they made. After Truman heard the news,

he planned to make the hydrogen bomb, also known as the super bomb. After that,

people started to be afraid of the cold war. In fear of starting a war on the USSR, people

thought it could end the world because both of these countries were very powerful and

had a lot weapons. People were scared because both of them owned very destructive

nukes. Also, many people thought that just hiding underground won’t help. The stakes

of the cold war were extremely high. The first Hbomb showed how scary it would be if

the U.S. and the USSR got into war against each other. The Hbomb was so strong
People would build bomb shelters in their backyards, schools would practice

attack drills and other public places would do the same . In the 50s and 60s , there

would be movies of the U.S. and the USSR going to war and having nuclear attacks.

These made Americans very worried on their everyday lives.

Space exploration would also be a very important and dramatic event for both

countries. On October, 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 missile launched Sputnik, it would be the

world’s first aircraft to be in space and would also be the first satellite in space and the

first man made object to orbit earth. Many Americans were unhappy with it, the U.S. has

always seen the first ones to be the first ones to make things stronger. Now in the space

race, the Soviets were beating the The U.S. badly. In 1958, the U.S. launched its first

satellite, Explorer 1, designed by the army under the direction of Wernher von Braun

and it was now considered a space race, that same year, President Dwight D

Eisenhower signed a public order creating NASA, a federal agency dedicated to space

exploration. Still, the Soviets were always one step ahead, launching the first man