During his nearly eight years in office, Truman confronted enormous challenges in both foreign and domestic affairs. Truman's policies abroad, and especially toward the Soviet Union in the emerging Cold War, would become staples of American foreign policy for generations
Truman and MacArthur offers an objective and comprehensive account of the very public confrontation between a sitting president and a well-known general.
Truman wanted peace for the world’s peoples, but he saw that freedom must precede order because freedom would provide the first and deepest roots for peace.
The Marshall Plan—launched in a speech delivered by Secretary of State George Marshall on June 5, 1947—is considered by many to have been the most effective ever of U.S. foreign aid programs.
In this address before a joint session of Congress, Truman establishes the Truman Doctrine, which pledges American support for free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures such as communism. (Audio with Transcript)
This essay examines the political contest between President Harry S. Truman and Senator Joseph McCarthy, a contest which began with McCarthy's speech in Wheeling,West Virginia and ended with the presidential election of
1952.
. The Soviet Union had entered the war against Japan, and the atomic bomb could be read as a strong message for the Soviets to tread lightly. In this respect, Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have been the first shots of the Cold War as well as the final shots of World War II.
Truman and MacArthur
