Blog Discussion Day.
President Harry Truman
- 33rd President
- Was not super popular when he won the election-Truman defeats Dewey
- Integrated (de-segragated) black and white troops
- Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan (see presentations blog)
- Created the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)-intelligence gatherers
- Delt with the transition from wartime to peacetime
- In charge of the Atomic Bombs
- Helped organize the United Nations
- "The Buck Stops Here"
- The Fair Deal-promote economic development (people were still sick of the New Deal)
- Got us involved (not militarily) in Vietnam by giving aid to France
- President during much of the Korean Conflict
President Dwight Eisenhower
- 34th President (1953-1961)
- Famous former WWII General
- His VP was Richard Nixon
- Eisenhower's decade was "fun" and "happy"
- Expanded Social Security
- Interstate Highway Program
- Increased minimum wage and personal incomes
- Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
- NASA is created
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