In an address to a joint session of Congress, President Harry Truman embraced a global role for the United States and opened a new chapter in U.S. foreign policy.

March 12, 1947. President Harry S. Truman presents the Truman Doctrine before Congress. It established U.S. economic and ...

March 12 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1912, Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scouts of America troop in Savannah, Ga. In 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the first of ...

This week (March 12) in 1947, President Harry Truman addressed Congress and outlined a foreign policy course of action that would become known as "The Truman Doctrine." In his speech, Truman called ...

This day in US history saw pivotal moments. Coca-Cola bottles first appeared. A Supreme Court justice was impeached.

If you ever take a course on the history of American foreign policy, you are bound to get tested on doctrines. The first president to lend his name to a foreign policy doctrine was James Monroe, ...