Harry+Truman

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=(Harry S. Truman) =

=__Biographical Information:__=

__Biographical Sketch:__
On May 8, 1884, Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar Missouri. His parents were John Anderson Truman (1851-1914) and Martha Ellen Young. He graduating from Independence High School. He had a very successful life. He married the love of his life Elizabeth Wallace. He joined the National Guard and was a commission officer. Afterwards he worked his way up into a political figure. Finally on april12, 1945 he became the 33rd president of the United States.

=__Political Experience__=
 * (1945-1946) Ending of World War II
 * (1946-1947) The Cold War began
 * (1947-1948) He passes the Taft-Hartly Act
 * (1948-1949) He help the start of NATO

=__Presidential Administration__=

Secretary of the Navy: Forrestal, James V. (Vincent)
=__Domestic Affairs__= Truman took office when World War II entered the last year. Japan surrendered in August 1945. Truman led a nation that, for the first time in two decades, was not wracked by the economic depression or world war. Truman’s main task was to lay out to Americans his vision for the country’s future. Two related issues was the future of New Deal Liberalism and the renewal of the economy from a war-time to a peace-time. When Truman became president on April 12, 1945, World War II in Europe was almost over. w Within a month, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered. In the Pacific,the end of the war with Japan was'nt over. As Truman took office, military planners believed that total victory would require an Allied invasion of Japan. The invasion would likely make the war for at least another year and cost over 200,000 American casualties.

=__Foreign Affairs__= On the morning of August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Estimates of the casualties are large, but upwards of 100,000 people,mostly civilians. Two days later, hearing no word from the Japanese government, Truman let the U.S. military proceed with its plans to drop a second atomic bomb. On August 9, that weapon hit Nagasaki, Japan. The Japanese agreed to surrender on August 14 and then on September 2.

=__Famous Quotes__= "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." " A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government."

=__Interesting Facts__= When he left office in 1953, Truman was one of the most unpopular chief executives in history. On July 28,1978 the Navy's new aircraft carrier was commissioned named by the SECNAV, the Harry S, Truman CVN 75.

Truman was the only president who served after 1896 not to earn a college degree.

=__Presidential Timeline__= Include a chronological timeline of the most important historical and political events that occured during your president's administration.
 * (1945) On May 7th, the German Surrender ended World War II in Europe
 * (1945) On July 16, the atomic age opened when American orces tested the Atomic bomb
 * (1945) Japan surrended, ending World War II
 * (1946) The Cold War began
 * (1946) Congress created the Atomic Energy Commission
 * (1947) Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Act after the President had voted it
 * (1948-1949) An Allied airlift supplied blockaded West Berlin
 * (1948) The Marshall Plan began giving economic aid to war-torn countries
 * (1948) Isreal became a republic
 * (1949) The United States and its allies set up the North Atlantic Trety Organization(NATO)
 * (1950) The Korean War began
 * (1951) Americans saw the first nationwide telecast

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President Harry S. Truman posing with Medal of Honor Recipients = =

=__Links__=
 * 1) [|http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ht33.html
 * 2) [|http:/http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/truman]
 * 3) http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/truman
 * 4) [[image:http://millercenter.virginia.edu/dev/ci/system/application/views/_newwebsite/images/stock/audio.gif link="http://millercenter.org/scripps/digitalarchive/speeches/spe_1945_0508_truman"]][| May 8, 1945 - Announcing the Surrender of Germany]