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Harry S. Truman Administration (1945–1952)

Note : The volumes listed below contain at least one document from the period of this presidential administration; view and search within the available documents. The Foreign Relations series was organized by year for the volumes covering 1861–1951, triennially for 1952–1963, and by presidential administration for 1964 onward—with some exceptions.

    Volumes are grouped into Regular, Accelerated, and Retrospective categories.

    Regular volumes

    1945

    1. General: The United Nations (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. General: Political and Economic Matters (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. European Advisory Commission, Austria, Germany (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. Europe (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    5. Europe (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    6. The British Commonwealth, The Far East (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    7. The Far East, China (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    8. The Near East and Africa (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    9. The American Republics (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1946

    1. General; the United Nations (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. Council of Foreign Ministers (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. Paris Peace Conference: Proceedings (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. Paris Peace Conference: Documents (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    5. The British Commonwealth, Western and Central Europe (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    6. Eastern Europe, The Soviet Union (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    7. The Near East and Africa (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    8. The Far East (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    9. The Far East: China (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    10. The Far East: China (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    11. The American Republics (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1947

    1. General; The United Nations (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. Council of Foreign Ministers; Germany and Austria (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. The British Commonwealth; Europe (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. Eastern Europe; The Soviet Union (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    5. The Near East and Africa (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    6. The Far East (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    7. The Far East: China (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    8. The American Republics (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1948

    1. General; the United Nations (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. General; the United Nations (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. Germany and Austria (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. Western Europe (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    5. Eastern Europe; The Soviet Union (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    6. The Near East, South Asia, and Africa (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    7. The Near East, South Asia, and Africa (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    8. The Far East and Australasia (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    9. The Far East: China (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    10. The Far East: China (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    11. The Western Hemisphere (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1949

    1. National Security Affairs, Foreign Economic Policy (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. The United Nations; The Western Hemisphere (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. Council of Foreign Ministers; Germany and Austria (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. Western Europe (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    5. Eastern Europe; The Soviet Union (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    6. The Near East, South Asia, and Africa (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    7. The Far East and Australasia (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    8. The Far East and Australasia (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    9. The Far East: China (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    10. The Far East: China (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1950

    1. National Security Affairs; Foreign Economic Policy (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. The United Nations; The Western Hemisphere (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. Western Europe (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. Central and Eastern Europe; The Soviet Union (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    5. The Near East, South Asia, and Africa (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    6. East Asia and the Pacific (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    7. Korea (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1951

    1. National Security Affairs; Foreign Economic Policy (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. The United Nations; The Western Hemisphere (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. European Security and the German Question (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. European Security and the German Question (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    5. Europe: Political and Economic Developments (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    6. Europe: Political and Economic Developments (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    7. The Near East and Africa (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    8. Asia and the Pacific (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    9. Asia and the Pacific (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    10. Korea and China (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    11. Korea and China (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1952–1954

    1. General: Economic and Political Matters (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. General: Economic and Political Matters (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. National Security Affairs (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. National Security Affairs (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    5. United Nations Affairs (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    6. The American Republics (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    7. Western European Security (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    8. Western European Security (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    9. Western Europe and Canada (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    10. Western Europe and Canada (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    11. Germany and Austria (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    12. Germany and Austria (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    13. Eastern Europe; Soviet Union; Eastern Mediterranean (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    14. The Near and Middle East (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    15. The Near and Middle East (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    16. Iran, 1951–1954 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    17. Africa and South Asia (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    18. Africa and South Asia (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    19. East Asia and the Pacific (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    20. East Asia and the Pacific (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    21. Indochina (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    22. Indochina (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    23. China and Japan (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    24. China and Japan (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    25. Korea (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    26. Korea (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    27. The Geneva Conference (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    Accelerated volumes

    1. The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    Retrospective volumes

    1917–1972

    1. Public Diplomacy, 1945–1952 (Being Planned (research has not begun))

    1. Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, 1945–1950 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. The Intelligence Community, 1950–1955 (Published and available in Full Text)
    3. Iran, 1951–1954 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. Iran, 1951–1954, Second Edition (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    5. Guatemala, 1952–1954 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)