Chinese civil warIn January 1946, President Truman sent George Marshall to China to unite the U.S.-favored Chinese Nationalist Party, headed by Chiang Kai-shek, and the Chinese Communist Party, headed by Mao Tse-tung, in order to achieve a ceasefire and prevent a civil war. Marshall gained...
The Pros And Cons Of President Truman Prior to Pearl Harbor, Japan started to create an empire that especially did not want to be manipulated by the United States. Steven Hook, the author of “U.S. Foreign Policy: The Paradox of World Power,” mentions that “With French and Dutch coloni...
After World War II, the U.S. black civil rights issue since the first time since Reconstruction in the political arena back to the federal level. In the new situation, especially the rapid growth of the black power and consciousness in the case, President Truman in 1946 established a "Pres...
Yee, who passed away at a Denver hospital on March 26, was considered one of the last members of the legendary World War II Flying Tigers who stopped Japan's relentless bombings of Kunming. War veterans, educators and political leaders honored Yee's life on Sunday at a small chapel in wes...
a code the Japanese found impenetrable. But Hopi loyalty to American war efforts was not without its limits: In 1950, tribal leaders demanded that President Harry Truman stop drafting Hopi youth into the Korean War, declaring in an open letter that “we have no right to be fighting other peo...
Ismet Inönü, who succeeded Kemal as president in 1938, warily steered a neutral course through the first five years of World War II, although Turkey received lend-lease aid from the United States after 1941. Despite considerable Allied pressure,
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President Truman had earlier expressed concern that the State Department's approach to the Middle East was “anti-Semitic”: “they put the Jews in the same category as Chinamen and Negroes,” complained the President.[24]Evidently, his selected diplomatic representative didn't make the same mis...
Following the war, Oppenheimer surrendered the helm of atomic weapon development.Reportedly, he told President Harry Truman “[he felt he had] blood on [his] hands” when meeting him in October 1945 after the introduction of such a threat into the world and the destruction at Hiroshima and Na...
Planning for the post-World War II world began before the United States even entered the conflict. On August 9, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime MinisterWinston Churchillfirst met aboard the cruiser USSAugusta. The meeting took place while the ship was anchored at US Naval Statio...