People who had served as aides to president franklin roosevelt worried that truman was not qualified to handle world leadership. considering what you learned in this section, evaluate truman as a world leader. think about: • his behavior toward stalin • his economic support of european nations • his support of west berlin'

Some say that next to Lincoln, Truman had an incredibly difficult presidency. Truman quickly came up to speed on all the actions that he was not informed about while being vice president to FDR. He chose to drop the bombs on Japan. He would answer many of the threats posed by Stalin. He would not be pushed around. He pushed to economically support and help European countries so that they could better fight off the Communist threat. He did this with the Truman Doctrine. He also kept West Berlin democratic and supplied despite being surrounded by Communist forces.