... Doctrine . Truman himself was worried that doing nothing to aide Berlin would be disaster because it would allow Communism to advance. What Harry S. Truman did by avoiding military action, using airlifts, while still aiding in some manner the people of Berlin was create a nice balance that would win him reelection. Truman would now regard the Soviet Union as a manageable threat; he now ... keeping forces at almost the original dividing line of North and South Korea . MacArthur and Truman would be diabolically opposed on this issue of Korea. MacArthur who was viewing this military action...

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