Truman Doctrine
1947 · Event
US pledges to support free peoples resisting Communist subversion or aggression.
On these timelines: Cold War, Master, USA
More from Cold War
- Solidarity movement in Poland (1980)
- Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
- Hungarian Revolution (1956)
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989)
- Henry Kissinger (1923)
- Helsinki Accords (1975)
- Long Telegram (1946)
- Iron Curtain speech (1946)
Around 1947
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)