Harry Truman

expressed support for peoples around the world resisting Communism. Truman announced this broad principle when he requested economic aid for Greece and Turkey to resist Communist insurgents. Truman saw economic aid as a way to prevent Communist parties (either homegrown or encouraged from the outside) from taking root in both countries, especially Greece. The Truman Doctrine was an important early step in escalating the cold war.
To rebuild the prosperity and stability of war-torn Europe.

Truman's home is located in Independence, Missouri

Truman was president all of 1950-51 and 52.

During this time, North Korea invaded South Korea. AUN force, mostly Amercan, attempted to defend South Korea and regain lost ground. China entered the war on the side of North Korea. Truman replaced MacArthur, the chief of US military operations and the war dragged on, hurting the Democrats in the 1952 election.

In 1952, Truman ordered federal seizure of steel mills whose workers were threatening to strike. After two months the supreme courts ruled that this seizure was unconstitutional and negated the order.

After Truman left office in January, 1953, he retired to his home in Independence, Mo but stayed active in the Democratic party and campaigned for Democratic candidates. In 1954 he almost died from a drug reaction following emergency gall bladder surgery.

The American five-star General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur, commanded the United Nations forces during the Korean War. MacArthur was sacked and relieved of duty in a controversial move by the Truman Administration. MacArthur actions and potential intentions in escalating the War into the People's Republic of China were seen as threatening civilian control of the military.

Harry Truman became the new President of the United States when Franklin Delano Roosevelt died just before the War in Europe ended during World War II in 1945. The US was on the side of the Allies like Great Britain and France. Truman was famous for ending the War in the Pacific when he ordered the droppings of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagaski, two major cities in Japan, to end World War II and give the victory to the Allies.

Under the Truman Doctrine, the U.S. offered military aid to countries such as Greece and Turkey that were fighting communism inside their borders.

From 1905 to 1911, Truman served in the Missouri National Guard. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, he helped organize the 2nd Regiment of Missouri Field Artillery, which was quickly called into Federal service as the 129th Field Artillery and sent to France. Truman was promoted to Captain and given command of the regiment's Battery D. He and his unit saw action in the Vosges, Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne campaigns. Truman joined the reserves after the war, rising eventually to the rank of colonel. He sought to return to active duty at the outbreak of World War II, but Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall declined his offer to serve.

The first time he was president was not because he wanted to be, but because it was forced upon him when President Franklin Roosevelt died. He was vice-president at the time and was immediately sworn into office. The second time he ran to be president was mainly, because he knew he could help the citizens of Amercia in that rough period. The first time he was president was not because he wanted to be, but because it was forced upon him when President Franklin Roosevelt died. He was vice-president at the time and was immediately sworn into office. The second time he ran to be president was mainly, because he knew he could help the citizens of Amercia in that rough period.

Born on a midwestern farm, Harry S. Truman served in World War One and after the war he returned to Kansas City and went in the clothing store business as a haberdasher. The business eventually failed and Truman enter local politics. A haberdasher is a person who sells clothing and small items commonly used with clothing, such as ribbons and buttons, and hats. You can read a complete biography of Truman on Wikipedia. MrV

he promised he would guarantee the rights of blacks.

President Truman ordered American troops moved from Japan to South Korea.

On the other hand... Imagine that Truman had NOT dropped the bomb(s). What would have happened. An enemy, which had attacked the United States, was refusing to surrender and refusing to make guarantees that it would not try to take over the Pacific again. Japan wanted to just pull back, hope the the Allies would let them build up again, and try again, learning from their previous mistakes. The Allies didn't want to fight that war again, and demanded that Japan surrender. Under Japanese terms, surrender would only have happened when an Allied soldier held a sword to the throat of the Emperor. At the end of the war, the Japanese knew that they had lost. They were holding out for better terms of surrender. They knew that the Allied forces would loose about a million soldiers if we attempted to attack Japan, and they knew that the American soldiers would have a serious problem killing all of the women, children and old people who would be using swords, pitchforks, handguns and whatever weapon they could find. But we would have been forced into such a battle if the Japanese refused to surrender. It is estimated that dropping the two atomic bombs killed fewer of the Japanese than would have died in a military invasion. If we HAD invaded Japan, would Truman have been later tried for treason for allowing a million soldiers die once it was found out that he could have won the war by dropping two bombs and without killing any more Allied soldiers? He was faced with a terrible dilemma. But he had to be loyal to HIS people. If Truman had not used "the bomb" it would have been a national disgrace when it was discovered that he had secretly spent over a billion of dollars to create a weapon that might have stopped the war sooner.

President Truman did do good things. But, my number one "pet peeve" about him was his involvement with the Korean War. I would rather the US had never gone to Korea. It was a brutal and senseless war that is actually still on today. We only called a truce at the end of the war. That is why there is still US military personnel there and North Korean Forces there. There is actually a building on the line in which a Korean soldier stands on one side and a South Korean or American Soldier stands on the other side. And this is inside the building. My father sad that war was worse than the war in Europe when he served in World War 2. I have heard other Korean War Vets say the same thing.

July 26, 1948 President Harry S Truman issued Presidential Order 9981. This brought to an end segregation in the armed forces. The transition took a while but was completed withing a few years.

In 1950, President Harry S. Truman committed US military forces to the United Nations military effort and named Gen. Douglas MacArthur Commander of the U.N. forces. The war ended up in a stalemate and an agreement was signed after two years of fighting. He was president from 1944 to 1952, when Dwight Eisenhauer was elected.

Harry Truman died of cardiovascalar failure at the age of 88.

Harry S Truman was US president at the end of World War 2 in 1945.
Harry Truman

General Douglas MacArthur was removed by US President Harry S Truman as commander of the UN forces in Korea for insubordination on April 11, 1951.

The President of the US for all but the last 5 months of the war was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He died and was succeeded by his Vice President Harry Truman, who made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan.

The military leaders included chief of staff General George Marshall, General Dwight D. Eisenhower (European commander-in-chief) and General Douglas MacArthur (Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific).

Truman wanted to avoid invasion of Japan because he knew that there would be massive Japanese civilian loss. The Japanese philosophy was that it was treasonous to be captured and that it was a religious sin for non-Japanese to be allowed to invade their country.

June 25th 1950 I when North Korea Com's crossed the 38th parallel

He made many decisions, military & diplomatic, related to ending the war with Japan. One of the most famous, was the final decision to approve the use of the newly invented atomic bombs against the Japanese before the planned Allied invasion of the Japan home islands.

He was faced with the choice of using the Bomb or of ordering a conventional invasion of mainland Japan, which The Pentagon estimated would cost up to a million Allied lives. Because the number of casualties in the Far East had already been horrifically high, and because the Japanese military were known to be extremely cruel to their captors, he regarded the conventional option as unacceptable.

The Truman Doctrine was the American policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism in Europe and the world. It ended sometime around the end of the Cold War, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.