Supervisors, administrators, and directors of special education usually use the. authoritative leadership style when supervising their special education staffs; however, collaborative leadership styles are slowly overtaking authoritative. leadership styles.
In a dramatic speech to a joint session of Congress, President Harry S. Truman asks for U.S. assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations.Historians have often cited Trumanâs address, which came to be known as the Truman Doctrine, as the official declaration of the Cold War.et, the Truman Doctrine successfully convinced many that the United States was locked in a life-or-death struggle with the Soviet Union, and it set the guidelines for over 40 years of U.S.-Soviet relations.
Many historians today rate Truman's performance much more positively than did his constituents at the time. Truman served as president of the United States and, therefore, Commander in Chief of the United States military during the final months of World War II. Under his command, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombsâthe first to be used in warfareâon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, effectively ending the war. For many Americans, Truman's legacy as the nation's leader centers on these controversial decisions. 1  BACK. 2  NEXT.