He was anticommunist so he wanted to stop it from spreading. He decided that under the 'Truman Doctrine' the US would help any nation that was in danger of falling to communism. This was his policy of containment, his foreign policy.
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President Harry Truman isssued the policy of containment
The Cold War began in 1947 and lasted until 1991. Harry S. Truman, America's 33rd President, served from 1945 to 1953. Truman was followed by Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953-1961, and John F. Kennedy from 1961-1963. The next few presidents were Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford.
President Harry S. Truman created the Truman Doctrine which called for the policy of containment during the Cold War era.
Truman actually gave the command to detonate the first nuclear weapon & he was the US president in office when man left the old world (conventional) and crossed into the atomic age in 1945. When that A-Bomb went off, the cold war began...even though the Soviets didn't get their bomb until 1949 (stolen from the US via spies).
The President of the U.S. during The Cold War was Truman.
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Harry Truman
President Harry Truman isssued the policy of containment
The Cold War began in 1947 and lasted until 1991. Harry S. Truman, America's 33rd President, served from 1945 to 1953. Truman was followed by Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953-1961, and John F. Kennedy from 1961-1963. The next few presidents were Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford.
If you are referring to the nuclear bomb, it was dropped over Japan in world war 2 and not the cold war. Those bombs were authorized by President Truman.
Harry Truman was the president when the war began in Korea.
Harry Truman was the President when the Korean War began, The began as a police action by the newly formed United Nation.
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the USSR and Harry S Truman was the President of the US at the time the Cold War began, at the end of WW II, and both of these leaders created the national policies upon which the Cold War was based.
Truman was a US Senator for most of the war, becoming the vice-president in 1945.
After WW II ended, Truman was elected to another term as president .
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