Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ya kasance muhimmiyar mahimmanci a farkon Cold War. A lokacin mulkinsa, Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ta shiga cikin halittar Isra'ila kuma ta shiga cikin lokacin da Indiya da Pakistan suka yi yaƙin Indo-Pakistan na 1947 kuma an raba su. A shekara ta 1948, 'yan kwaminisanci sun yi juyin mulki a Czechoslovakia, Soviets sun kewaye Berlin
kuma ya hanzarta Berlin Airlift, da kuma Congress wuce da Marshall Shirin sake gina Turai. A shekara ta 1949, an kafa kungiyar yarjejeniyar Arewacin Atlantic, kuma Mao Tse-tung ya kafa Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Sin. A 1950, China ta mamaye Tibet kuma Koriya ta Arewa ta mamaye Koriya ta Kudu. Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ta yi muhawara, ta yi la'akari da martani kuma ta dauki mataki kan dukkan wadannan batutuwa, kuma Austin ya zama sananne a duniya saboda goyon bayansa ga matsayin Yammacin Yammacin Turai.