That the USSR are attempting to spread communism further ... would be more able to trade with the USA. In 1947, President Truman sent General George Marshall to see what could be done to reduce ...

America in the World from Truman to Obama, published by Knopf in February 2014. From 1997 to 2001, Sestanovich was the U.S. State Department's ambassador-at-large for the former Soviet Union.

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.

Truman’s commitment to civil rights alienated a large part of the South. His commitment to stopping Soviet expansion had also alienated the most liberal wing of his party. READ ON THE FOX NEWS ...

Challenges: The Cold War began when World War II ended, and in 1947, Harry S. Truman formally committed the United States to the containment of Soviet expansionism in Europe. In 1947, the North ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in the German town of Potsdam to discuss the fate of Germany.

Truman was the first -- and hopefully only ... He navigated America through the early years of the Cold War and opposed the ...