Truman administration response to communist threat

Truman administration response to communist threat

Post has two assignments

1: Truman administration response to communist threat

Using the primary source material in the Revel textbook and the assigned readings listed below, analyze how the Truman administration responded to the perceived threat of communist expansion. As you construct your response, be sure to consider terms such as “the Iron Curtain,” “the Truman Doctrine,” “the Marshall Plan,” and “Containment.”

-Primary Sources in the Fraser book on Revel: Section 24.2, “The Hardening of Positions: Containment, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the Berlin Airlift”

-George Kennan’s 1947 Containment speech

-Churchill’s 1946 Iron Curtain speech

-1947 Truman Doctrine speech

-1947 Marshall Plan speech

-Fraser Book on Revel: Chapter 24, “The World the War Created”

-Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, “’A Growing Feeling of Certainty in the Righteousness of our Step:’ The Truman Doctrine,” in The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006), 61-79. (available on BB)

-Ferald J. Bryan, “George C. Marshall at Harvard: A Study of the Origins and Construction of the ‘Marshall Plan’ Speech,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 21, no. 3 (Summer 1991): 489-502. (available on BB)

2:Managing Safety & Health Processes at Work

Order Description

Study the accident case study below and carry out a technical report for management and action plan.
Provide an introduction that briefly describes your rationale for your intended approach to the accident case study including background to the accident. The main body of the assignment should clearly identify the accident in relation to the outcome and causation. There should be a description of the control systems in place and an analysis of the strength and weaknesses of those control measures which have contributed to the accident such as the lessons learnt and significance to safety management.

communist threat