Search Results for "Cold War" Outline of American History - Chapter 11: Postwar America. The United States dominated global affairs in the years immediately after World War II. Victorious in that great struggle, its homeland undamaged from the ravages of war, the nation was confident of its mission at home and abroad. U.S. leaders wanted to maintain the democratic structure they had defended at tremendous cost and to share the benefits of prosperity as widely as possible. For them, as for publisher Henry Luce of Time magazine, this was the "American Century. " For 20 years, most Americans remained sure of this confident approach. But gradually some Americans began to question dominant assumptions about American life. The Cold War was the most important political issue of the early postwar period.
At the war's end, antagonisms surfaced again. The Soviet Union had its own agenda. Harry Truman succeeded Franklin D. But Truman responded quickly to new challenges. During the closing months of World War II, Soviet military forces occupied all of Central and Eastern Europe. Cold War Museum. Reconstructing the White House, 1948-1952. “By the time Truman became president, the decay could no longer be ignored.
As the White House Museum describes it, “Floors no longer merely creaked; they swayed. The president’s bathtub was sinking into the floor. A leg of Margaret’s piano broke through the floor in what is today the Private Dining Room. Engineers declared the whole house to be in imminent danger of collapse.” “Over the next three years, the interior of the White House was removed and completely replaced, and President Truman and his family lived across the street. The result was a sound, durable structure that basically reproduced the original White House.
““all the mellow feeling of the old house gave way to a stark atmosphere of solidity. . - Saturday Evening Post.
Winston Churchill and the New Digital “Iron Curtain” Philip White March 5th will mark the 66th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s “Sinews of Peace” address, better known as the “Iron Curtain speech,” delivered in a gymnasium at Westminster College in tiny Fulton, Missouri. There, Churchill provided the epoch-defining view of the division between the Communist “Soviet sphere” and the democratic West, the memorable (and now, almost overused) appraisal of the Anglo-American partnership as the “special relationship” and a word-perfect exhortation of the principles of freedom and liberty. But all these years later, with the USSR no more, do Churchill’s words still ring true?
In searching for an answer, one need look no further than the recent censorship actions of another Communist regime, North Korea. One of Churchill’s reasons for using the “iron curtain” metaphor was that Stalin’s cronies were preventing media access to Poland, Yugoslavia, and other countries struggling under the Red Army’s jackboots. Followed and harassed, and some expelled.
Armageddon averted? Nukes 'on board' blazing sub (VIDEO) Harry Truman Library. This Georgia rising: education, civil rights, and the politics of change in ... - Patrick Novotny. Love letters reveal tyrants' hearts bleed, too. Former Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin wrote in one letter to his wife Nadya, while she was away from him seeking treatment for headaches in Germany, "I miss you so much Tatochka. ...I'm as lonely as a horned owl. " The father of fascism, Benito Mussolini, wrote to his love Ida Dalser: "My little Ida, I have just arrived after twelve endless hours on a train that left me completely covered in soot. I washed it off as best as I could and my first thought, even before going to dinner, is you.
" Napoleon Bonaparte wrote to his wife Josephine incessantly, begging her to visit him and write to him. "You are going to be here beside me, in my arms, on my breast, on my mouth? Take wing and come, come! A kiss on your heart, and one much lower down, much lower! " Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler spoke of Eva Braun, to whom he was married for just 40 hours, in direct language. Joseph Stalin Benito Mussolini Napoleon Bonaparte Adolf Hitler Stalin to his wife: "I miss you. ...
(CNN) -- Stalin was to the point. Popular History Cold War Books.