Student Research File

Complete List of Topics

The Student Research File topics are listed below. They are arranged in an approximate chronological order.

• Harry Truman's World War I *online only
• From Soldier to Senator: Harry S. Truman, 1918-1941 *online only
• Renovation of the White House, 1945-52.
• Planning for the Postwar World: President Truman at the Potsdam Conference, July 17-August 2, 1945.
• United States Policy in Occupied Germany After World War II: Denazification, Decartelization, Demilitarization and Democratization.
• The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
• The War Relocation Authority and the Incarceration of Japanese-Americans During World War II.
• President Truman and the Plight of Displaced Persons in Europe Following World War II.
• Demobilization and Reconversion: Rebuilding a Peace-time Economy Following World War II.
• The War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo, 1945-48.
• The United Nations, 1945-53: The Development of a World Organization.
• Creating a Pluralistic Democracy in Japan: The Occupation Government, 1945-52.
• The Development of an Atomic Weapons Program Following World War II.
• The Chinese Civil War: General George C. Marshall's Mission to China, 1945-47.
• The Quest for the Peaceful Atom: The Baruch Plan and the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.
• The Attempt to Achieve Stable Economic Growth During the Truman Administration.
• The Debate Over Labor Policy: President Truman's Battle with Congress Over Passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, January-June 1947.
• The Truman Administration's Agricultural Policy, 1945-48.
• President Truman's Fight to Unify the Armed Services, 1945-49.
• The Truman Administration's Civil Rights Program: The Report of the Committee on Civil Rights, and President Truman's Message to Congress of February 2, 1948.
• The Truman Administration's Civil Rights Program: The Desegregation of the Armed Forces.
• The Truman Administration's Civil Rights Program: The Attempt to Put the Principles of Racial Justice into Law, 1948-1952.
• The Ideological Foundation of the Cold War-the Long Telegram, the Foreign Affairs "X" Article, the Clifford Report, and NSC 68.
• The Truman Doctrine and the Beginning of the Cold War, 1947-49.
• Establishing the Marshall Plan, 1947-48.
• The Central Intelligence Agency: Its Founding and the Dispute Over Its Mission, 1945-54.
• The Truman Administration's Loyalty Program
• The United States Recognition of Israel.
• Running From Behind: Truman's Strategy for the 1948 Presidential Campaign.
• The Fair Deal-President Truman's Vision of the American Future.
• The Point Four Program: Reaching Out to Help the Less Developed Countries.
• Containment in Latin America: The Truman Administration's Policies Toward Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico.
• The Emergence of an Asian Pacific Rim in American Foreign Policy: Korea, Japan and Formosa.
• The Emergence of an Asian Pacific Rim in American Foreign Policy: Indochina, Thailand, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia and the Philippines.
• Cold War Confrontation: Truman, Stalin and the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949.
• The Brannan Plan: The Truman Administration's Attempt to Achieve Full Production Agriculture, 1949-50.
• The Origins and Establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1948-52.
• The Truman Administration's Policy Toward Native Americans.
• The Development of an Energy Policy During the Truman Administration.
• The Problem of Migratory Farm Labor in the United States, 1948-52.
• President Truman's Fight for National Health Insurance, 1949-53.
• Creating a New Balance of Power: The Integration of Western Europe.
• President Truman's Response to Women's Issues.
• Preparing to Survive Atomic Attack: The Truman Administration's Civil Defense Program.
• President Truman's Confrontation with McCarthyism.
• The Korean War
• Oil Crisis in Iran, 1950-52.
• The Truman Scandals: The President Confronts a Political Crisis, 1951-52.
• Waging Psychological Warfare Against the Communists, 1951-53.
• The Constitutional Crisis Over President Truman's Seizure of the Steel Industry in 1952.
• Immigration Policy: President Truman's Veto of the McCarran-Walter Act.
• The Old President as Political Campaigner, 1952-1972.