The Truman Doctrine may have been intended to rouse the public and Congress to national security expenditures, but it ignored the complexity of Greece's civil war, vastly overstated the global ...

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College professor Lee Lacy and Truman Presidential Library and Museum archivist Sam Rushay discussed Cold War espionage and counterintelligence during the ...

Offner argues that Truman's unsophisticated, confrontational approach to statecraft made the Cold War longer, meaner, and more expensive than necessary. His Truman is a sometimes bigoted, often ill ...

President Harry Truman's address to the United States Congress, and the world, in March 1947 is seen by some historians as marking the start of the Cold War.

One reason the Truman Doctrine proved hard to sell was its name. ... Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization. By Joe Scarborough. Harper. 257 pp. $29.99. Comments.

It was late on a wintry Friday afternoon when Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson got the bad news that Britain, its economy crippled, could no longer continue aid to Greece and Turkey, leaving bo… ...

In this beautifully written panoramic view of the Cold War, full of illuminations and shrewd judgments, the distinguished diplomatic historian Gaddis brings the half-century U.S.-Soviet struggle to ...

Historians pinpoint the Cold War as starting with the Truman Doctrine in 1947 and ending with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. It's likely the U.S. is going to be entering a prolonged ...

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