President Harry Truman
33rd 1945-1953

By Bruce Bryant

EARLY HISTORY

• Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri.
• After graduating high school he helped his father manage they're 600 arc farm.
• They moved to Independence, Missouri.

EDUCATION

• He was a smart student and tried to attend West Point but was turned down because of his eyesight
• His parents couldnt afford him to go to college.
• Truman only had a high school diploma, went to law school in Kansas City but dropped out

MILITARY

• Truman was in the Missouri National Guard
• When America entered World War 1, Truman reenlisted in the National Guard
• When he reenlisted he was sent to France in 1917

FAMILY

• Truman married Elizabeth "Bess" Wallace in 1919
• Had one daughter named Mary Margaret Truman
• Mary became a professional singer and author

OTHER OFFICE JOBS

• In 1922 Harry was elected as judge in Jackson County, Missouri
• In 1930 He was reelected as presiding judge
• In 1934 Truman was elected to be a U.S. Senate
• He was also Vice President during F.D.R

TERM

• First Administration 1945-1949
• Nazi Germany surrendered
• He dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in Japans surrender
• He also introduced the Marshall Plan

SECOND TERM

• Second Administration 1949-1953
• First inauguration to be publicly televised.
• Supported the creation of NATO in 1949.
• Helped defend South Korea as North Korea tried to invade South Korea.
• Announced he wasn't running for president again.

EVENTS

• He bombed Japan with Atomic bombs to prevent more American casualties.
• He defeated Nazi Germany and they surrendered.
• Introduced the Marshall Plan, and the Truman Doctrine.
• During the Cold War he enforced containment on the Soviet Union

LASTING LEGACY

• The former president raised funds for the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library.
• When he bombed Japan it was consider the most controversial presidential decision ever made.

Fact
On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican pro-independence activist tried to assassinate Truman at the Blair House in Washington D.C. while the White House was being remodeled, Truman was unharmed, but a police officer was killed and the assassins were also killed.

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CABINET

• Alben Barkley
• George Marshall
• Kenneth Royall
• Louis Johnson

PARTY

• Democratic Party