33.+Harry+S.+Truman

**33rd President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman ** 1945-1953

**“Behind the Scenes” ** **How Truman became the 33rd President of the United States ** **Why is Truman such an important President? **
 * Born in Lamar, Missouri
 * May 8, 1884
 * Grew up in Independence, Missouri
 * Farmer in Missouri for 12 years
 * Worked various jobs all over Missouri
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">France during World War I as a captain in the Field Artillery
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Upon return, he married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Opened a haberdashery(a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats ) in Kansas City, but failed due to business recession ====
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1922, as an active Democrat, he was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court(an executive body that administered affairs of the county)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Attended Kansas City School of Law
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Became Senator in 1934
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">During World War II, he headed the Senate war investigating committee With that, he saved as much as 15 billion dollars
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Died at the age of 88 on December 26, 1972]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Started off as Vice President
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">During first weeks in office, he rarely came in contact with Roosevelt
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Due to little relationship with the Roosevelt, he had little to no information on the development of the atomic bomb or the difficulties with Soviet Russia
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On April 12, 1945, he became President due to Roosevelt’s assassination
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He stated, “I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.”[[image:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QnfIAVVnYWM/TFlXQrk8PwI/AAAAAAAAk4Q/9m_Rf6dpHqI/s1600/Nagasakibomb.jpg width="279" height="331" align="right"]]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After V-E Day(announced the end of the war in Europe over the radio), the U.S. sent an urgent plea to Japan, but the surrender was rejected. After a lot of consultation with his advisors, he ordered atomic bombs to be dropped on war work devoted cities: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Bombing caused Japan to surrender
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Truman witnessed the signing of the charter of the United Nations
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He followed President Roosevelt’s policies, but soon came up with a policy of his own
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He presented the Fair Deal” a 21-pomt program, proposing the expansion of Social Security, full- employment program, permanent Fair Employment Practices Act, and public housing and slum(hobo) clearance
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">During his campaign in 1948, Truman was already known as having effective and excellent leadership in foreign affairs
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Truman Doctrine was a program that he established in order to aid Turkey and Greece when being taken over by the Soviet Union
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Also established the Marshall Plan, named after his Secretary of State, to stimulate economic recovery in a torn up Europe
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the Russians blockaded western Berlin in 1948, Truman created a massive airlift for Berlin until the Russians backed down
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the same time, he was creating while negotiating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which would become NATO. It was established in 1949 and it protected the Western nations
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On June 1950. Truman tried his best to scare off North Korea from South Korea by convincing the U.N. to send forces on the border. He could not just sit at the White House and not do anything to help South Korea from North Korea’s attacks[[image:http://www.americanrhetoric.com/images/harrytruman1948dnc.jpg width="270" height="319" align="left"]]


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Truman decided not to run again and retired to Independence

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conclusion: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All in all, [|President Harry S. Truman]was a very dedicated to making peace and helping out others. He was very experienced with foreign affairs. Because of that, he turned into a much respected man. He did so much for his country, and others, it’s unbelievable. He was very unselfish and knew the significance of having good relationships with other countries. Because of that knowledge, unselfishness, and big heart, he was liked by people all over the world. It was the ideal representation of the United States. He certainly played a huge role in this country, and this country would not be where it is at without him.