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Arts & Humanities > 20th & 21st Century US History The legacy of Harry Truman: 9 of 11

During the policy forming years of the cold war it was left down to two men so separated by their past but united in their common goal, the threat of Soviet Russia and the protection of American interests abroad. Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower were the 33rd and 34th Presidents of the United States of America respectively and presided over the maturation of the cold war into a global concern. The two men differed greatly in personality and ideology and this subsequently lead to the differing approaches to the Soviet threat. Truman was a "plain speaking " farmer from Missouri who, ...
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