Narrator: After World War Two, a 45-year struggle ... looked to recover from the war. Harry Truman gave a notable speech in 1947 called the ‘Truman Doctrine’. In this speech, he pledged ...

Kennan's observations led to the American policy of Soviet containment, which was formalized in Truman Doctrine of March ... dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.

Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks in American history. Challenges: The Cold War began ...

I N THE FALL of 1951, as the Cold War stepped up and the Truman Doctrine thawed U.S. relations with The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 ...