Harry S. Truman’s political views

• Federal vs UnitaryUnitary 70%
  FederalUnitary

  Ordered equal treatment in the armed forces in July 1948 and pressed a federal civil-rights agenda after the 1947 report To Secure These Rights.

• Democratic vs AutocraticDemocratic 68%
  DemocraticAutocratic

  Sent troops to Korea without a declaration of war and seized the steel mills, but obeyed the Court and relieved General MacArthur on 11 April 1951 over a public challenge to policy.

• Security vs FreedomSecurity 55%
  SecurityFreedom

  Set up federal loyalty boards by Executive Order 9835 in March 1947, under which just over 300 employees were dismissed, yet vetoed the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950 as a threat to civil liberties; Congress overrode him.

• Nationalism vs InternationalismInternationalism 78%
  NationalismInternationalism

  Announced the Truman Doctrine in March 1947, signed the Marshall Plan’s Foreign Assistance Act in April 1948 and brought the United States into NATO in 1949.

• Militarist vs PacifistMilitarist 70%
  MilitaristPacifist

  Ordered the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 and sent troops to Korea in 1950; defence spending rose from about 5% of national output in 1948 to 13% in 1952.

• Assimilationist vs MulticulturalistMulticulturalist 65%
  AssimilationistMulticulturalist

  Vetoed the McCarran–Walter Act of 1952 for keeping national-origins quotas, which Congress overrode, and signed the Displaced Persons Act of 1948.

• Collectivize vs PrivatizeCollectivize 62%
  CollectivizePrivatize

  Proposed national health insurance in November 1945 and won the Housing Act of 1949, but Congress blocked most of the Fair Deal.

• Planned vs Laissez-fairePlanned 75%
  PlannedLaissez-faire

  Won an extension of price controls in July 1946, backed the Employment Act of 1946 and seized the steel mills in April 1952, a move the Supreme Court struck down 6–3.

• Isolationism vs GlobalismGlobalism 72%
  IsolationismGlobalism

  The United States signed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade at Geneva on 30 October 1947, though his administration dropped the International Trade Organization charter in December 1950.

• Irreligious vs ReligiousReligious 65%
  IrreligiousReligious

  Signed the bill of 17 April 1952 that required each president to proclaim an annual National Day of Prayer.

• Progressive vs TraditionalProgressive 70%
  ProgressiveTraditional

  Commissioned the 1947 civil-rights report and desegregated the armed forces in 1948.

No documented position, so not scored: Acceleration vs Bioconservative.