Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States of America, from 1945-1953. His presidency is associated with the final stages of the Second World War and the early years of the Cold War.[1] Notable events occurring under Truman's presidency are the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,[2] the enacting of the Marshall Plan, the founding of NATO, and the Korean War. Truman also serves as the namesake of the Truman Doctrine,[3] which represented a shift in U.S. foreign policy from a nominally isolationist policy to a more openly interventionist one, in which Truman argued that the United States was compelled to assist "free peoples" in their struggles against so-called "totalitarian regimes". The Truman Doctrine was one of the guiding notions of the U.S.'s imperialist, anti-communist efforts at containment and rollback of the Soviet Union and other socialist nations and liberation movements throughout the Cold War.[4]
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- ↑ “Harry S. Truman | U.S. President & History | Britannica.” Encyclopædia Britannica.
- ↑ “Truman Was a War Criminal.” 2023. Workers.org. Archived.
- ↑ “60 Years since Truman Doctrine.” RT International. March 13, 2007. Archived 2022-05-22.
- ↑ “Milestones: 1945–1952 - Office of the Historian.” State.gov. Archived 2023-03-06.