Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2009
Abstract
Domestic policies of the Truman administration in the period immediately following the end of World War Two are treated. A special attention is paid to Truman's speech in U.S.
Congress (September 1945), in which the president provided a detailed, 21-point account of his administration's re-conversion policy. It was not yet clear whether Truman would repeat the inter-war mistaken policy of isolationism.
Truman was also preparing his "Fair Deal" measures as a follow-up to FDR's New Deal. It follows clearly from archive materials that the Truman administraton was preparing extensive de-mobilization in 1945 and that it was not getting ready for future military conflicts.