From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are ...

Narrator: After World War Two, a 45-year struggle for global supremacy emerged: the Cold War ... Harry Truman gave a notable speech in 1947 called the ‘Truman Doctrine’.

The meeting underlined the differences between the Allied powers, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would ... which was formalized in Truman Doctrine of March 12, 1947.