"To ensure the peaceful development of nations, free from coercion, the United States has taken a leading part in establishing the United Nations, The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. We shall not realize our objectives however, unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes. This is no more than a frank recognition that totalitarian regimes imposed on free peoples, by direct or indirect aggression, undermine the foundations of international peace and hence the security of the United States." - President Harry S. Truman March 1947 Part A What was the purpose of the plan described by President Truman? The United States planned to provide reparations to Western European countries. The United States planned to provide political, military.and economic aid to countries being threatened by Soviet aggression. The United States planned to provide economic aid to organize the North Arlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).