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Our 33rd President
On April 12th, Mr. Harry S. Truman became our 33rd president after president Franklin Roosevelt died in office. He was not elected, but was the running mate for Roosevelt when he got elected in 1944. He then became the president when Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage caused by pollio. -
New Vice President
Alben W. Barkley became the vice president, as chosen by Truman, in April of 1945 after Truman became president. He was a former seven-term House member and a former four-term Senator from Paducah, Kentucky. Barkley was a well expirenced and readily equiped for the job of the vice president. After his time in the presidencial ways, he went back to the Senate swhortly before he diedfrom a heart attack. -
The Chartedr of the U.N.
In June of 1945, Truman witnessed the signing of the charter of the United Nations. This charter states how the U.N. is going to help the world, and how it is going to do it. Some of the ways they are going to accomplish this are; by allowing every nation that is a member may have a vote, every naiton's vote is equal, and that everry matter in every nation will be discussed. -
WWII
To help end World War two, Truman pleaded Japan to surrender. The reason that he pleaded them to surrender is that he didnt want to have to go to extremes to finish the war or make them surrender. He tried many tactics to try to convince the Japenese. -
Bombing Hiroshima
President Harry Truman, after many pleads for Japan to give in, dicided to go to drastic measures to end the battles. His first way of doing that was to have a atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese island of Hiroshima. This had a great impact on the war by killing and injuring many Japanese people. -
Bombing Nagasaki
Three days after Truman Dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, he had american bombers brop another atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Truman did this because he needed to hit home the idea that the U.S. wasn't kidding about winning the war. -
Harold Hitz Burton
Truman appointed Harold Hitz Burton to the suprime court in 1945. Burton, before his appointment, was the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. He also was a Ohio senator from 1941 to 1945, before he became the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was in the Supreme Court from October 1st to October 13th, 1958. -
Fred M. Vinson
On June 24th, 1946, Truman appointed Vinson to be the Chief Justice of the United States. Vinson, before he was appointed, was the Secretary of the Treasury from July 23, 1945 to June 23, 1946. He was also, the Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization from 1943 to 1945. Vinson was a represenative in the House of Reprsenatives for Kentucky from 1924 to 1938. -
Truman Doctrine
This document, made by Truman, proposeed that the United States give $400 million and military support to the countries of Greese and Turkey. The reason for this is to help those countries to stay out of the grips of the Soviet Union. The reason that the U.S. did this was that we were still trying to keep off the communist threat. Also, if the Soviet Union got either of the two countries, the other one was definately going to be captured. -
United States presidential election, 1948
Truman won the 1948 election agenst Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican of New York, and Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrat of South Carolina. Truman recieved 49.6% of the popular vote, Dewey recieved 45.1%, and Thurmond got 2.4%. Truman got 24,179,347 votes, Dewey got 21,991,292 votes, and Thurmond got 1,175,930 votes. Truman also had 303 electoral votes, while Dewey got 189, and Thurmond got 39 votes. -
First Televised Inauguration
This was the first televised inauguration, and it was for Truman! -
NATO
NATO, in 1949, joined United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, Portugal, Iceland, and Canada all signed the treaty. The treaty stated that there was to be a formal peacetime military alliance. This was signed after WWII ended, and was used to keep peace between the countries that signed. -
White House Addition
In 1948, Truman ordered a addition to the extiror that would make a second-floor balcony in the south portico that came to be known as the "Truman Balcony." The construchtion began in December 1949, and lasted through March 1952. Many thought that this was a unnessary addition to a 130 year old house. This addition also brought attention to the other unsafr parts of the house. -
Vietnam War
North Korea attacked South Korea on June 25th, 1950. Truman then named this a national emergency. Truman then urged the United Nations to intervene in the subject. He also sent United States infantry to help South Korea. The U.S. soldiers, along with soldiers from other allied nations, to assist South Korea in the war against their neighbors to the north. -
Assassination Attempt
In 1950, Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempted to assassinate Truman at Blair House on Pennsylvania Avenue, across from the White House. Torresola mortally injured a White House policeman, Leslie Coffelt, who shot Torresola dead before he died. Collazo was convicted of murder of a police officer and sentenced to death in 1952. However, Truman changed that to life in prison. -
22nd Amendment
In 1951, the 22nd Amendment was passed, only allowing a president to serve a maximum of ten years. For Truman, that ment that this would have applied to him, excpt for, a grandfather clause in the amendment allowed the current president not be affected by this amendment. Excpt, Truman decided not to run for another term. -
Steel And Coal Strikes
In 1952, a dispute between workers and management over price control and wages erupted. Truman instructed the Secretary of Commerce, Charles W. Sawyer, to take control of a number of the naotio's steel mills and coal mines, in order to keep steel being provided fot the war in Vietnam. Later, the Supreme Court ruled this act unconstitutional. In order to fix this, the Supreme Court reversed the order in a major separation-of-powers decision, and was reversed with a 6 to 3 decision. -
NATO
Later, in 1952, Greece and Turkey both signed the NATO formal peacetime military alligance.
