On 5 January 1946, US President Harry S. Truman sends a letter to his Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, who is on a visit to Moscow, in which he criticises Soviet Union policy in the European countries under Soviet influence.

On 12 March 1947, US President Harry Truman delivers an address to US Congress in which he sets out the general direction of US foreign policy.

In July 1947, George Frost Kennan, US Ambassador to Moscow, anonymously publishes in the US journal Foreign Affairs a damning indictment of Soviet international policy and diplomatic practices.

‘Ruler and Compass’. On 20 March 1948, cartoonist Woop illustrates the objective of US foreign policy, which, since the address given by US President Harry S. Truman to Congress on 12 March 1947, has sought to contain Soviet expansion in the world.

On 28 March 1950, the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera comments on the Cold War tensions between the United States and the USSR and expresses its concern at the Soviet expansion policy.

On 1 November 1952, the first US H-bomb explodes on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean and strengthens the international supremacy of the United States in terms of weapons capability.

Am 26. Dezember 1972 berichtet die französische Tageszeitung Le Monde auf ihrer Titelseite über den Tod des ehemaligen Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten, Harry S. Truman, und schildert den Werdegang des Begründers der sogenannten "Truman-Doktrin" sowie seine kompromisslose Politik gegenüber der Sowjetunion.