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)
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989)
- Helsinki Accords (1975)
- Henry Kissinger (1923)
- Long Telegram (1946)
- Iron Curtain speech (1946)
- Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)
Around 1947
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Korean War (1950)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)