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Harry S. Truman Administration (1945–1952) Note : The volumes listed below contain at least one document from the period of this presidential administration; view and search within the available documents.
1 Truman and Post-war America, 1945–1952. examine the presidency of Harry S. Truman. More powerful in global terms than any president had been before, Truman assumed leadership of the free world in the global conflict that arose between the two.
The Truman administration embarked on a policy of rebuilding democracy and the economy in Japan and West Germany. It acted practically alone in Japan, and with Moscow, London and Paris in Germany.
In establishing the national security policy and system that would guide the United States for much of second half of the twentieth century, Truman opened the Cold War. Fear of communism and determination to oppose it at every opportunity led to the U.S. involvement in the Korean War as well as McCarthyism.
8 wrz 2015 · Containment policy and the rise of McCarthyism: Mistrust and fear mongering breed national security gridlock. Postwar harmony was short-lived during the Truman administration. In 1949, the...
This collection focuses on what President Harry S. Truman called a "Fair Deal" in his 1949 Inaugural address, which laid out his plans for domestic policy for his second term. Supporting materials include photographs and oral histories.
Winston Churchill, Truman accepted the withdrawal of Anglo-American forces from the substantial areas they controlled at the War's end in the occupation zone in Germany previously assigned to the Soviet Union. He recognized the Soviet sponsored Polish government in June of 1945 after Harry Hopkins, FDR's most
