The film chronicles the life and presidency of Harry Truman, highlighting his journey from a Missouri farm boy to becoming ...

The Truman Doctrine was crucial for Greece to avoid falling into the Soviet influence sphere while the country was ravaged by the Civil War ...

After WWII, Truman watched most of Eastern Europe fall to the Communist "Iron Curtain." "I do not think we should play compromise any longer," Truman wrote.

and Eisenhower (170,000), similarly to Truman, unwound World War II and New Deal programs. Clinton introduced a massive buyout program designed to “reduce the layers of bureaucracy and micro ...

Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks in American history. Challenges: The Cold War began ...

The Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and the Truman group “have operated in the most intense period of sustained combat activity for the U.S. Navy since World War II,” the service said.

As part of his plan to contain the spread of communism, Truman decided to give large amounts of money and aid to the capitalist countries of Western Europe. This was intended to help them to ...

President Truman justified his decision by pointing ... some of the surprising things key people thought at the time. WW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the world.