This old newspaper piece represents what Truman did during the Cold War. Truman implemented The Truman doctrine during the cold war. The truman doctrine was created to counter the spread of communism. This means that truman supported democracy and capitalism. Truman enacted this doctrine while he was president, but he was not president for the entire cold war during the Cold War.
This artifact is one the US nuclear warheads that was used during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This artifact is important because it represents how close the US and the Soviet Union were to break out in nuclear war. It ties to the Nuclear Weapons race between US and the Soviet Union. This nuclear warhead also represents the power of the United states during the cold war. They were one of the only few countries who owned nuclear weapons. This is an artifact for Harry Truman Because he was president of the United States for a part of the cold war, though he was not president during the the Cuban Missile Crisis.
This propaganda poster shows the iron curtain that separated eastern communist Europe and western democratic Europe. This is a propaganda poster for Truman because he supported the iron curtain in order to prevent communism from spreading towards the east. This propaganda poster may have been made by communists in order for them to convince their people that eastern Germany was a horrible place to live in. On the other hand Stalin supports this he does not want communists to move to eastern Europe and spreading their beliefs. Though it may have also been made by Truman to convince the people not to cross the iron curtain to go to communist Russia.
This artifact is Truman's spectacles. He wore these spectacles while he was in office as president of the United States. He was president of the United States for part of the Cold War. Truman also did his part to try and counter the spread of communism because he hated communism.