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Published on Nov 25, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

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