American Decades
The Korean War
Telegram from the State Department to President Truman
Telegram
By: U.S. State Department
Date: June 24, 1950
Source: Telegram from the State Department to President Truman. June 24, 1950. Available online at http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/... ; website home page: http://www.trumanlibrary.org (accessed June 18, 2003).
About the Author: The U.S. State Department is the United States' leading foreign affairs agency. Led by the Secretary of State, who serves as the president's primary foreign affairs advisor, the department presents U.S. policies and aims to the rest of the world. The State Department maintains embassies and consulates in most nations to support U.S. travellers abroad and to promote...
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1950's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia
- Presidential Reactions to Joseph McCarthy
- NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security
- The Korean War
- Statement Upon Sentencing the Rosenbergs
- "'Old Soldiers Never Die'
- Agreements Between the United States and Japan
- "The Checkers Speech"
- Television Campaign Commercials
- "The Row of Dominoes"
- Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem
- Speech by Dwight Eisenhower to the U.S. Congress, February 22, 1955
- African American and Women Voters in the 1950s
- The Little Rock Crisis
- Creation of NASA
- "The Kitchen Debate"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
