Harry S. Truman - his foreign policy
his foreign policy
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Study Aids, ESL, Foreign Languages
| Author: | Gabriele Arnold | ISBN: | 9783638510257 |
| Publisher: | GRIN Publishing | Publication: | June 15, 2006 |
| Imprint: | GRIN Publishing | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gabriele Arnold |
| ISBN: | 9783638510257 |
| Publisher: | GRIN Publishing |
| Publication: | June 15, 2006 |
| Imprint: | GRIN Publishing |
| Language: | English |
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Institut für Englisch und ihre Didaktik), 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: It is an enormous task to talk about Harry S. Truman's eventful life. In this essay not everything can be mentioned, only the most important aspects of his life will be pointed out. His private life is only summarized very briefly because it is the aim to elaborate on his political activities, especially the foreign policy. His most important foreign policy regimes are explained in detail, such as the New Deal Legacy, beginning and course of the Cold War, the policy of Containment, the declaring of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan with the following Berlin Airlift. 'The aim of the American Presidency Series is to present historians and the general reading public with interesting, scholarly assessments of the various presidential administrations. These interpretive surveys are intended to cover the broad ground between biographies, specialized monographs, and journalistic accounts. As such, each will be a comprehensive, synthetic work which will draw upon the best in pertinent secondary literature, yet leave room for the author's own analysis and interpretation.'
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Institut für Englisch und ihre Didaktik), 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: It is an enormous task to talk about Harry S. Truman's eventful life. In this essay not everything can be mentioned, only the most important aspects of his life will be pointed out. His private life is only summarized very briefly because it is the aim to elaborate on his political activities, especially the foreign policy. His most important foreign policy regimes are explained in detail, such as the New Deal Legacy, beginning and course of the Cold War, the policy of Containment, the declaring of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan with the following Berlin Airlift. 'The aim of the American Presidency Series is to present historians and the general reading public with interesting, scholarly assessments of the various presidential administrations. These interpretive surveys are intended to cover the broad ground between biographies, specialized monographs, and journalistic accounts. As such, each will be a comprehensive, synthetic work which will draw upon the best in pertinent secondary literature, yet leave room for the author's own analysis and interpretation.'
