In the introduction to The First Cold Warrior, Spalding quotes President Harry Truman as opining that history will say that his “term of office saw the beginning of the cold war, [and] it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.” He presents his own presidency as one consumed by an “all-embracing struggle – this conflict between those who love freedom and those who would lead the world back into slavery and darkness.”
Your paper should answer the following:
• As the first cold warrior, what was Truman’s strategy of containment?
• How did Truman’s containment strategy provide grounds for a new liberal internationalism?
• How did containment enable America and the world to avoid another world war?
• Did Truman understand the threat better than others? Why or Why not?
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