The US aid program began in earnest in the early stages of the Cold War, with an intention to beat off the contenders from ...

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 ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met ... and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would ...

President Harry S. Truman’s “loyalty checks” began with an executive order declaring that “there shall be a loyalty ...

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 C.I.A. told President Harry S. Truman that the United States faced ... unless Soviet leaders had decided to start an all-out war.

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 ...

John Foster from Mentor Public Library will host a year-long lecture series on the lives and legacies of Cold War-era presidents. He’ll begin by spotlighting Harry Truman during a talk at 6:30 p.m.

and also played roles in both World Wars and the Cold War. From 1946 through 1952, President Harry Truman used this house as his winter vacation home and because he spent 175 days of his ...

If the U.S. is in a cold war, it seems to be cheaper and less urgent than the last. In the early 1950s, President Harry Truman nearly tripled the defense budget before Dwight Eisenhower ...