The Truman Doctrine may have been intended to rouse ... down on eastern Europe and enabled Truman to blame them for the Cold War. The President also defeated Stalin's 1948 blockade of western ...

Offner argues that Truman's unsophisticated, confrontational approach to statecraft made the Cold War longer, meaner ... And his view that the Truman Doctrine was too general, too simplistic, and too ...

Show more 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 it, the President ...

Perhaps World War III. And so begins the story of the Truman Doctrine, what Joe Scarborough frames in his bold and highly readable new book, “Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight ...

Seen in retrospect, the Cold War -- from the Truman Doctrine and the Korean War to the Cuban missile crisis, détente, and the fall of the Berlin Wall -- appears to lead inexorably to a Western triumph ...

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 ...