Today we are having a blog discussion.
-President Harry Truman
- 33rd president
- 1945-1953
- Became VP for FDR in January, 1945
- Took over for FDR when he died in April, 1945
- On of the most unpopular presidents of all time when he left office- 22% approval rating
- Rating has improved greatly over the last 60 years
- farmer, and public official before presidency
- elections= apart of 1
- election held on 1948
- became president after FDR died and elected in 1948
- Thomas Dewey was supposed to win against Truman
- Dewey was for segregation
- looked like Dewey was going to win
- Truman had won
- been VP for 3 months then became President
- not very educated
- not a good speaker
- lowest approval rating
- hated Truman due to the Korean War
- considered to be a good president today
- accomplishments= authorized the nuclear bomb dropping on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
- Truman Doctrine helped Greece and Turkey fight off communist
- can only serve 2 terms and no more than 10 years
- President when WW2 ended with Germany and Japan
- Pots dam conference
- Decided to use the atomic bomb against Japan
- Had to deal with transition from wartime economy to peacetime economy
- helped organize and later join the United Nations
- Took a hard- line stance against communism and the Soviet Union- Policy of Containment
- Truman Doctrine and Marchall Plan were passed
- Civil Rights- helped African Americans
- desegregated the military
- take place in the Civil War
- used things to start benefiting the African Americans
- Created the CIA and the National Security Council
- "The Buck Stops Here"=says that he would take responsibility for anything that happens
- Similar to FDR's New Deal of the 1930's= the Fair Deal
- Aimed to promote economic development and social welfare
- faced a lot of opposition from Southern Democrats and Republicans
- Most fair Deal proposals did not get passed
- Civil Rights, Housing, Social Security, Minimum Wage, Health, Labor, etc.
- Israel was established place for the Jews
- Got the US involved in Vietnam by giving aid to France
- Assassination was through letters/ letter bombs
- slept through the whole attempt
- by the Puerto Ricans after their independence
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 34th President
- 1953-1961
- Famous WW2 general
- Decided to join the Republican Party after WW2
- This all but guaranteed him a win in the 1952 election
- Richard Nixon was his VP
- Diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease and had a minor stroke
- 2 elections
- 1952 Against Attlee Stevenson
- 1956 against Attlee Stevenson again
- Won again
- Called him Ike
-Accomplishments
- Ended the Korean War
- Tried everything to keep us out of war
- Dominated by the Cold War- Containment Policy
- Used the CIA to do covert ops to disrupt communist governments abroad
- Opened relation with Spain
- Defensive with South Korea and Taiwan
- SEATO was formed
- Increased US involvement in SE Asia- US advisors sent
- Developed idea that nuclear weapons would be defensive weapons
- NASA created under him
- Eisenhower Doctrine aimed for the middle east
- Believed in Laissez- faire
- Believed in a balanced budget
- Deported around 1 million illegal immigrants (Mexicans)
- Sent Federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to help in the desegregation of all public schools- 1954- Brown Case
- Helped pass the Federal- Aid Highway Act of 1956 which created the US Interstate Highways
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