Harry Truman

President Truman considered issues like death toll, atomic fallout, and political consequences before using the atomic bomb. In the end, it was determined that it would save many lives by avoiding a conventional battle.

It expressed support for peoples around the world resisting Communism.
basically said that "the US and a leader in the free world, must support capitalism and fight communism." it is thought Truman said this as Russia was on his mind.

Harry Truman is buried at his presidential library and museum in Independence, Missouri.

First Brigade on June 14, 1905.

Harry S. Truman was motivated to stop the Second World War and create peace between the nations. He sponsored the creation of the United Nations and presided over the rebuilding of Japan and Europe.?æ

It is hard to say exactly. Truman showed leadership as an officer in World War I. He was a county judge under Pendergast machine in Kansas City and undoubtedly learned a lot about how to handle people and how politics worked. As a senator his Truman committee saved the country millions.

Truman was decisive. He thought he was right even when the matter was debatable. He understood party politics. He had the common touch. Particularly the rural people and the less educated people related to him. He was not prejudiced . He helped set up Israel as an independent country. He desegregated the military.

Truman Capote died from liver failure. He was 59 years old. He died at the home of Johnny Carson's ex-wife Joanne, He was one of America's authors.

The Truman Doctrine was a policy based on a speech given by President Harry F. Truman to a joint session of the US Congress. In his speech, Truman told Congress that "it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." The focus was on preventing the spread of Communism, especially in the countries of Greece and Turkey, but it effectively changed US Foreign Policy.

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Truman was born May 8, 1884, and died December 26, 1972, at age 88.

he had to decide whether or not to drop the atomic bomb on Japan

Margaret Truman

Medicare is the social program that president Truman proposed to America in 1949. This has since been changed a bit, but we have Medicare as a form of insurance for older people.

Harry S. Truman was a Democrat.

-Joel

Harry S Truman was president first off and isn't that really important? He changed the world. He got Japan to surrender when he brought bombs, he served in the army (captain), and he believed in civil rights. But I probably didn't mention ALL the great things that he did that was important. Not even close to all, but at least you have some info.

The dawning of the nuclear age, the end of World War 2, the start of the United Nations, Israel created, the Korean conflict, Mahatma Gandhi assassinated, Joseph Stalin died, People's Republic of China came into existence, Truman was also the first president to address the nation on TV.

HST was considered a reliable trustworthy person to be vice-president for a very sick man who was leading the country in a world war and FDR was probably going to die in his 4th term and they wanted someone whom they could trust. Andrew Johnson was a terrible vice-president after President Lincoln was shot and killed and they did not want another Andrew Johnson to follow FDR after he died.

The basic idea was to stop the spread of communism. The Truman Doctrine introduced a change in foreign policy from only involving the United States in conflicts that directly affect it to intervening on behalf of countries that are in danger of having their sovereignty threatened on by authoritarian states. The United States can intervene financially, militarily or both.

-Truman's fair deal only passed one reform, the housing act of 1849, which authorized 810,000 govt constructed houses over 6 yrs addressing the housing need of the poor. But only 61,000 units were built during trumans administration. Many fair deal reforms were civil rights reforms and federal health care, often rejected by the republican congress which was backed by the southern democrats. The anti-communist hysteria didn't help these reforms pass because these were similar to laws being passed in European nations.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was president when schools were legally desegregated in 1954. However, this came about due to the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, not by Presidential order.

He was unpopular throughout much of his first term, and the mid-term elections in 1946 were a disaster. The fringe of the Democratic Party, led by Henry Wallace, split, as they angry over Truman's foreign policy and Wallace launched his own campaign. Then during the Democratic National Convention, the large number of (racist) Southern Democratics, nicknamed the "Dixiecrats", walked out after Northern Democrats successfully managed to get the party to support Civil Rights. Their leader, Sen. Strom Thurmond, also launched a campaign, hoping to take away votes from the solidly Democratic South. Together, Thurmond and Wallace took 5% of the vote, while Truman won 5% more of the votes than Dewey.

All polls and pundits had predicted that Truman would lose; the economy and domestic politics had been in a mess throughout his presidency. By the time election day came, it seemed no-one believed Truman could win apart from Truman himself. Even his wife thought he would lose, yet he continue to tell everyone he met he knew he could win.

The Truman doctrine and containment had on common threat, communism. The truman doctrine wanted to help any country threatened by commmunism. Containment was about stopping communism from spreading especially in the U.S.

liberal democrats preferred Henry Wallace

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Democrat

Theodore Roosevelt: Republican, except the election of 1912, in which he was with the Progressive / Bull Moose Party