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Roosevelt dies
With the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, Vice President Harry S. Truman assumed the Oval Office. -
Truman Takes Office
FDR dies, and Truman being the vice president, he becomes the new president -
Vision for postwar America
Delivered a message to Congress which laid out his vision for postwar America. -
Truman's post war agenda
Truman presented to Congress a lengthy and rambling twenty-one point message that nonetheless attempted to set the post-war political and economic agenda -
Truman sends soilders home.
Throught 1946 Truman sends most soilders home. -
Truman appoints Biracial Committee
Truman appointed a biracial Committee on Civil Rights to look into race relations. -
Taft Hartley Act
Passed the Taft-Hartley Act. This act allowed the President to declare an 80-day cooling-off period during which strikers had to return to work, if the strikes were in industries that affected the national interest. -
Truman desegrates military
Truman sent a special message to Congress on civil rights announcing the he had “instructed the secretary of defense to take steps to have the remaining instances of discrimination in the armed services" -
No more discrimation
Truman banned discrimination in the hiring of federal employees. -
The Fair Deal
The Fair Deal was an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in his January 1949 State of the Union address.
