We did blog discussion today.
Harry Truman-
- Became vice president for FDR in Jan. 1945.
- Took over for FDR when he died in APril 1945.
- One of the most unpopular presidents of all time when he left office- 22% approval rating.
- Rating has improved greatly over the last 60 years.
- Bad eyesight.
- Didn't go to college.
- 1948- Truman vs. Thomas Dewey- Truman came from behind, newspapers and polls assumed that Dewey would win.
Accomplishments-
- Making the atomic bomb.
- Truman Doctrine- milltary aid to Greece and Turkey.
- Fair Deal- like New Deal, helped people, common Americans, most of it didn't get passed.
- NATO.
- Nuremburg Trails.
- United Nations.
- Re-build Marshall Plan.
- Buck stops here.
- Created CIA and National Security Council.
- Desegregated the U.S. miltary.
- Took a hard-line stance against communism and the Soviet Union- Policy of Containment.
- Got the U.S. involved in Vietnam by giving aid to France.
- Berlin Airlift.
- McCarthyism.
- Fired Douglass MacArthur.
Kennedy Assassination-
- In Dallas.
- Lee Harvy Oswald shot him.
- Govenor of Texas recoved but JFK didn't.
- Lee Harvy Oswald- defection to the USSR.
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