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Truman didn't graduate college (not enough funds to continue). He was vice president during WWII and after 82 days FDR died, leaving him unprepared to handle it.
He was handed a really big stick: the atomic bomb; and thrust into a war between Japan and the US, scared and unsure of himself, he chose to drop a bomb on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, when Japan was debilitated and incapable of assault. He engaged the US in a premature Cold War by provoking bad relations with the Soviet Union, and trying to use the same power that Franklin Roosevelt had.
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∙ 14y agoTruman had no prior experience in foreign relations upon taking the position as President, making him unprepared to negotiate and act during World War II.
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