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President of the United States (1945–1953), Truman ordered the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, launched the Marshall Plan and the containment doctrine at the outset of the Cold War, racially integrated the armed forces, and led the United States into the Korean War.
Political axes
Harry S. Truman leans further toward nationalist than 73% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Intervention is where Harry S. Truman stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, Harry S. Truman sits practically at the catalog median.
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The Jewish national movement founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897, which sought a Jewish state in the Land of Israel as a response to antisemitism and led to the creation of Israel in 1948, uniting nation, the Hebrew language, and return to the ancestral land.
Democratic Party current born with Franklin Roosevelt that joins financial regulation, social security, public works and strong unions with civic patriotism, preserved capitalism and international leadership.
Militant democracy doctrine, authorizing a democratic state to restrict the enemies of democracy itself by banning anti-system parties, monitoring extremists and maintaining conscription and reinforced security to defend the constitutional order.
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Anarcho-NaturismAnarchist39%
King of Spain since 2014, a militarily trained constitutional monarch. In his 3 October 2017 speech he condemned the Catalan separatist referendum to defend constitutional unity; he renounced his father's inheritance and promotes transparency and Europeanism.
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A semi-presidential republic in Eastern Europe, Ukraine is consolidating democracy, national identity, and closer ties to the West while resisting the Russian invasion, a struggle that dominates its politics, economy, and society.
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Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic united parliamentarism, proportional representation, and intense cultural life, but was undermined by economic crises and political instability that paved the way for Nazism.
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