Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREECE & TURKEY. Both nations faced takeover in 1947-Greece from a savage struggle with Communist guerrillas, Turkey from Russian pressure to annex its northeastern territories and thereby force joint sovereignty over the strategic Bosporus and Dardanelles. The Truman Doctrine was chiefly responsible for thwarting Moscow's goals in both countries...
...BERLIN. Moscow did its best to squeeze the Allies (U.S., Britain, France) out of West Berlin with the blockade in 1948-49. Truman's characteristically spunky reply was the airlift, and another Soviet defeat. Again in 1959, after Nikita Khrushchev launched his rocket-rattling "breakthrough" policy, the Russians began threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, thereby isolating and possibly dooming West Berlin. The threat to Berlin, repeated in 1960 and 1962, was defused by U.S. troop reinforcements. The building of the Wall in 1961 to choke off the flow of escapees was tacit admission...
...KOREA. Stalin thought that the southern half of the divided country-a scant 120 miles from Japan-was ripe for plucking in 1950. Truman's decision to intervene, with United Nations support, frustrated that attempt. While Korea was no victory for the U.S., the stalemate that resulted prevented the Russians from achieving their original objective...
...Truman will make one stop, in West Sturbridge, Mass., before arriving in Cambridge. He will speak tomorrow before the New Parochialism Society at the West Sturbridge Lyceum...
...Truman, though his office has consistently denied it, is scheduled to arrive in Cambridge tomorrow night in time for Thursday's Harvard Commencement. The denials are in keeping with the tradition of secrecy regarding Harvard's honorary degrees...