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Harry S Truman was born in Missouri.
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Spanish American War.
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Truman graduates high school, as a great student
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FBI established
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Harry starts dating high school mate, Bess Wallace
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Titanic sinks losing over 1,500 people
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Truman rejoins National Guard in light of WWI
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Truman, part of the 129th Artillery Regiment is deployed to France
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Treaty between Germany and Allied Powers causing WWI to come to an end.
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After confessing her love and vice versa, Truman marries longtime girlfriend Bess Wallace
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Harry and Bess welcome one and only child, daughter, Mary Margaret Truman Daniel
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Truman is elected as Senator
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A new system to provide benefits for the needy. (Many Qualifications to be met before receiving anything)
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WW2 begins
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Allied Forces invaded France by Normandy Landings
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Last major German offensive attack on Western Front
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's vice president is Truman for a short run
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Harry S. Truman takes over as president after 82 days of Vice Presidency and FDR dies.
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Truman initiated the attack on Japan, dropping 2 atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japan and Germany surrender causing the termination of WW2
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By mid-July there was word of a successful test run of an atomic bomb.
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There was a firebombing in Tokyo killing 80,000.
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Almost 62,000 US soldiers died
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In the battle of Okinawa, there was around 13,000 soldiers and sailors killed.
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Cold War begins, between US and Soviet Union
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After first presidency Truman was re-elected for second term
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First shot at a civil rights law (unsuccessful)
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (part of the government in charge of putting civilians in space)
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Second shot at a civil rights law, more successful than first (mostly add ons to the first)
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Vietnam war peaked
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Truman died in Kansas City Missouri
