Oral history interviews of the U.S. Foreign Relations in World War II Oral History Project, 1975-1978.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Indiana University, Bloomington. Center for the Study of History and Memory

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Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30 November 1874. He was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst before joining the Army in 1895 and serving in India and Sudan. After leaving the Army in 1899, he worked as a war correspondent for the Morning Post and the following year was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Oldham. In 1904, Churchill decided to join the Liberal Party, and in 1906, was elected Liberal MP f...

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Achilles, Theodore C. (Theodore Carter), 1905-

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U.S. Ambassador. From the description of Reminiscences of Theodore C. Achilles : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309721870 Theodore C. Achilles was born in 1905. He served as Foreign Service officer, U.S. Department of State, 1931 to 1962. In addition, he served in the following capacities: 1st sec., American Embassy in London, 1945, and American Embassy in Brussels, 1946; director for Western European Affairs, Departmen...

Berger, Samuel D. (Samuel David), 1911-

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Samuel David Berger was born in Gloversville, N.Y., in 1911, the son of Harry I. and Bess (Cohen) Berger. In 1937 he married Margaret Fowler. Following graduate studies in economics at the University of Wisconsin and the London School of Economics, Berger entered government service in 1940 as a labor and manpower specialist. In 1942 he joined the Lend-Lease Mission to Great Britain where he worked under Avereill Harriman. His Foreign Service career began when he was recruited from the army, in w...

Handfield, F. Gerald (Francis Gerald), 1944-

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Gallman, Waldemar J., 1899-1980

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Anderson, Terry H., 1946-....

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Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953

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Political leader of the Soviet Union. From the description of Statement of Joseph Stalin, 1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 748677730 ...