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This American President

Cold War | Harry S. Truman: The Power of the Universe Part 2

This American President

This American President

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.6698 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Harry S. Truman, a former haberdasher from Missouri, presided over the final victory in World War II, but a new conflict emerged: the Cold War. This episode explores how he responded to the unprecedented challenge of containing communism. JOIN PREMIUM...

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0:00.0

In our previous episode, we covered President Harry S. Truman's unlikely rise to power

0:08.9

and his first few months in office.

0:11.2

He had made the momentous decision to drop the atomic bomb.

0:15.0

World War II was over, and America and the world now looked to an era of peace.

0:19.7

But new problems were on the horizon.

0:22.2

The victorious allies were now forging a new world order,

0:25.5

but couldn't agree on what that order should look like.

0:28.5

The world had suffered through two world wars

0:30.6

and desperately feared a third one,

0:32.9

especially now that the atomic genie was out of the bottle.

0:36.4

How President Truman handled these challenges is the subject of this episode, of this

0:40.9

American president.

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