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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Kennan's observations led to the American policy of Soviet containment, which was formalized in Truman Doctrine of March 12, 1947. Truman supplied aid to Greece and Turkey and set in motion a ...

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 ...

Jason Parker, left, a member of the Truman Library Institute Board of Directors, presents the 2022 Truman Book Award to Christian Ostermann before the authors address Wednesday at the library.

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