4Soviet threat

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 18:02:53 -0500

After Roosevelt's death in 1945, Truman embarked on a series of policy decisions that drove U.S. foreign relations for twenty years and beyond. We now forget how close Greece, Turkey and Iran came to joining the Soviet orbit. Truman, the supposedly simple Midwesterner, was able to identify and rely on expertise of sophisticated advisors like Dean Acheson and George Kennan to contain the Soviets without war.