After succeeding Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, Harry S. Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks ...

Harry Truman gave a notable speech in 1947 called ... of each other led to a series of tense stand-offs throughout the Cold War.

The making of a Cold War spy. The life and work of Frank ... One man who had influence over such weapons was President Harry Truman’s secretary of defense, James Forrestal.

My grandfather Harry S. Truman, who was sworn in as president ... s postwar arsenal largely kept the peace throughout the Cold War until 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and the Iron Curtain ...

That was the holy grail of Soviet leaders, from Joseph Stalin to Leonid Brezhnev, during the Cold War. But the multi-generational, bipartisan leadership of American presidents from Harry Truman to ...

The political backdrop to John Nash's paranoid and geopolitical hauntings included the Cold War ... As U.S. President Harry Truman divided the world into camps of "tyranny or freedom," U.S ...

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Mark Adams is the new director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and ... "We had a fifth grader in last year looking at our Cold War displays, and they looked at the map of the Iron ...