Office of the Historian

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, Volume I (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. General: Political and Economic Matters, Volume II (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. European Advisory Commission, Austria, Germany, Volume III (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. Europe, Volume IV (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    5. Europe, Volume V (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    6. The British Commonwealth, The Far East, Volume VI (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    7. The Far East, China, Volume VII (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    8. The Near East and Africa, Volume VIII (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    9. The American Republics, Volume IX (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1946

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

    1947

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

    1948

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

    1949

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

    1950

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

    1951

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

    1952–1954

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

    Accelerated volumes

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

    Retrospective volumes

    1917–1972

    1. Public Diplomacy, 1945–1952, Volume IV (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, PDF)
    3. Iran, 1951–1954 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook, PDF)
    4. Iran, 1951–1954, Second Edition (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook, PDF)
    5. Guatemala, 1952–1954 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)