The following year, he convinced Congress to approve the Marshall Plan, a massive aid package designed to rebuild Western Europe. In 1949, Truman presided over the creation of NATO, an alliance of Western countries opposed to the Soviet Union. Truman left office as one of the most unpopular presidents of the twentieth century, mainly due to the Korean war and his then controversial decision to dismiss Admiral Douglas MacArthur, resulting in a huge loss of support. In the 1952 election Eisenhower successfully campaigned against what he denounced as Truman's failures: 'Korea, Communism and Corruption'. Increasingly concerned about inflation, Truman reimposed some price controls in December 1945, but the unpopularity of those controls led the administration to seek other ways to curb inflation, including cuts to federal spending. In July 1946, after average prices rose at the unprecedented rate of 5.5 percent, Truman won passage of a bill that extended his authority to institute price controls on some items.
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