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Truman forged wartime policy and the Korean war
A retrospective portrait of Harry S Truman detailing his wartime decisions including the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Korean War action under UN command, the Truman Doctrine, NATO creation, the Marshall Plan, and the political fallout from his firing of General MacArthur. It notes his stance toward the Soviet Union, the UN, and postwar Europe shaping a new global order.
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Harry S Truman
Missouri
North Korea
Republic of South Korea
Truman
United Nations
United States
Congress
Soviet Union
Korea
Greece
Turkey
Middle East
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Russia
Soviet Russia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Harvard University
Ee Agency
Franklin D. Roosevelt
San Francisco
Germany
Japan
Iit
Potsdam
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Britain
Churchill
Clement Attlee
Republic of Korea
U.S
U. N
South Korea
U. N. Security Council
38Th Parallel
U.N
U. S
Security Council
Council
Red China
White House
Ko-rea
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Kremlin
State of the Union
Stalin
Washington
Middle West
Appalachians
Manchuria
Ethiopia
Rhineland
Austria
Munich
League of Nations
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Douglas MacArthur
Far East
Senate Investigation TV and
Foreign Relations Committees
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
MacArthur
America
Secretary of Defense
Joint Chiefs' of Staff
K Truman
General MacArthur
Wake Island
Pacific