The United States has the smallest defense budget in nearly 100 years. If the U.S. is in a cold war, it seems to be cheaper and less urgent than the last.

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 ...

Back in 1867, Democratic President Harry Truman tried to buy Greenland for $100 million ... Truman did offer Denmark $100 million in gold for Greenland – in 1946. The offer came as the Cold War was ...

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

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 ...

The U.S. has responded to concerns that China might restrict the export of minerals by trying to diversify its supply chain.

It wasn't his proudest moment, but Harry S. Truman was the first -- and hopefully ... He navigated America through the early ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...