During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S. Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other problems to solve during the war, Truman, as on 12 April 1945, he became president. He told reporters: "I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me."
Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. He grew up in Independence, and prospered for 12 years as a Missouri farmer.
He went to France during the First World War as a captain in the Field Artillery. Back he married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, and opened a haberdashery in Kansas City.
Active in the Democratic Party, was elected a judge of the Truman Jackson County Court (an administrative position) in 1922. He was a senator in 1934. During the Second World War he headed the Senate war investigating committee, checking in waste and corruption and saving perhaps $ 15,000,000,000th
When President Truman has some of the most important decisions in history. Soon after VE Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage. Urge Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed.
In June 1945, Truman witnessed the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, hopefully established to preserve peace.
Until now, he followed his predecessor's policies, but soon developed his own. He presented to Congress a 21-point program, proposing the expansion of social security, full employment program, a permanent Fair Employment Practices Act, and housing and slums. The program, Truman wrote, "symbolizes for me my assumption of office of President in my own good." It became known as the Fair Deal.
Threats and crises marked the foreign scene as Truman successful campaign in 1948. In foreign affairs he was already providing his effective leadership.
In 1947, when the Soviet Union, Turkey and put pressure on the guerrillas threatened to take over Greece, he asked Congress to help the two countries to articulate the program that bears his name - the Truman Doctrine . The Marshall Plan, named after his secretary of state stimulated spectacular economic recovery in war-torn Western Europe.
When the Russians to the western sectors of Berlin blocked in 1948, Truman created a massive airlift to Berlin power, until the Russians backed down. In the meantime, he was negotiating a military alliance of Western nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has to protect in 1949.
In June 1950, when the communist government in North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman conferred promptly with his military advisers. Had to be there, he wrote, "complete, almost unspoken acceptance on the part of anyone to do that to be done to meet this aggression had to. There was no indication from anyone that could the United Nations or the United States back away from. "
A long, discouraging struggle proved to be a UN force was a line about the old boundary of South Korea. Truman kept the war a limited, rather than risking a major conflict with China and perhaps Russia.
The decision not to run, he retired Independence, he died at the age of 88 26th December 1972, after a stubborn fight for life.
Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. He grew up in Independence, and prospered for 12 years as a Missouri farmer.
He went to France during the First World War as a captain in the Field Artillery. Back he married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, and opened a haberdashery in Kansas City.
Active in the Democratic Party, was elected a judge of the Truman Jackson County Court (an administrative position) in 1922. He was a senator in 1934. During the Second World War he headed the Senate war investigating committee, checking in waste and corruption and saving perhaps $ 15,000,000,000th
When President Truman has some of the most important decisions in history. Soon after VE Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage. Urge Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed.
In June 1945, Truman witnessed the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, hopefully established to preserve peace.
Until now, he followed his predecessor's policies, but soon developed his own. He presented to Congress a 21-point program, proposing the expansion of social security, full employment program, a permanent Fair Employment Practices Act, and housing and slums. The program, Truman wrote, "symbolizes for me my assumption of office of President in my own good." It became known as the Fair Deal.
Threats and crises marked the foreign scene as Truman successful campaign in 1948. In foreign affairs he was already providing his effective leadership.
In 1947, when the Soviet Union, Turkey and put pressure on the guerrillas threatened to take over Greece, he asked Congress to help the two countries to articulate the program that bears his name - the Truman Doctrine . The Marshall Plan, named after his secretary of state stimulated spectacular economic recovery in war-torn Western Europe.
When the Russians to the western sectors of Berlin blocked in 1948, Truman created a massive airlift to Berlin power, until the Russians backed down. In the meantime, he was negotiating a military alliance of Western nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has to protect in 1949.
In June 1950, when the communist government in North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman conferred promptly with his military advisers. Had to be there, he wrote, "complete, almost unspoken acceptance on the part of anyone to do that to be done to meet this aggression had to. There was no indication from anyone that could the United Nations or the United States back away from. "
A long, discouraging struggle proved to be a UN force was a line about the old boundary of South Korea. Truman kept the war a limited, rather than risking a major conflict with China and perhaps Russia.
The decision not to run, he retired Independence, he died at the age of 88 26th December 1972, after a stubborn fight for life.
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