I started by taking my test, I didn't do too horrible. Then we got into our presidential blogs.
Truman-first became president after FDR died. Truman had only been VP for about 3 months before FDR died. Didn't know about the Manhattan Project until he became president. Was president at the start of the Cold War. Wasn't very well liked at this time, even though he's popular now. The thing that made him unpopular was because we had just got out of WW2. During the Korean conflict he fired Macarther-head of troops in the Korean war- because he wanted to go to war with China, and we didn't need to do that. In his 1948 election he faced Thomas Dewey. What was signifigant about this was because Truman had a very big come from behind. Accomplishments include: ending WW2, using the Atomic bomb. Had the excutive order to make the military unsegregated. The Fair Deal-a lot like the New Deal. He stopped the spread of communism as best as he cuold. helped workers and poor people. Potsdam Conferencemet at this conference to determine German consequences after WW2. A famous quote was "the buck stops here" basically it means he was going to take responsibility for the good and bad. He helped organize the United Nations. We joined under his presidency. Huge part of his presidency was to stop communism. We gave a lot of money to europe and japan to help rebuild. We went to war in Korea and Vietnam to stop the spread of communism. From 1945 through the 70's. The CIA and National Security Council were created. The Fair Deal aimed to promote economic development and social welfare. Faced a lot of opposition from souther democrats and republicans. Most fair deal proposals didn't get passed. Civil Rights, Housing, Social Security, Minimum Wage, Health, Labor, Education, and Agriculture were part of the things that it was aimed to help. Another big thing was Truman recognized Israel as a country. Even thought the Vietnam war was just in it's infancy, we started helping france. Truman was the first guy that started to send money. Woah--that's a lot for only like 20 minutes.
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