Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Truman's Presidency (1945-1953)
- Foreign Policy
- August 6th 1954 US
drops first atom bomb
on Hiroshima
- August 9th 1945 US
drops second atom
bomb on Nagasaki
- Japan surrenders on
August 14th 1945
- 12th March 1947
Truman Doctrine
- An act of
containment against
Communism
- inspired by
George Kennan's
Long Telegram
- February
22nd 1946
- he believed Greeece and
Turkey were being
threatened by communist
aggression
- Truman asked for $400m to help them
- 1947 Secretary of State George Marshall
proposes that the US should provide
economic assistance to help post-war Europe