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I don't really know anyone who credits Truman more than FDR for the Allies winning WWII.
Maybe he gets the credit because it is easy to credit the guy who was in office when the opposing super-power fell. Much easier than analyzing the complexity of Eastern European society/economics. Does Reagan get credit for arming the Mujahideen? Does he get credit for the Polish protests? Does he get credit for Gorbachev being a moderate compared to his predecessors?
Sorry, don't mean to hijack the thread, folks, and I more often than not agree with you Glen, but the whole "Reagan won the Cold War" claim is, to me, a very simplistic perspective.
It is not that I don't believe in giving credit where its due, its just I am hard-pressed to find where exactly Reagan did anything, other than give a stirring speech, that really caused the fall of the USSR.
I wish Winston Churchill had been able to exert more influence on FDR in regard to the Soviet Union’s intentions after WW2. Too much territory was ceded and existed behind the “Iron Curtain” until the late 1980’s.