Today is blog discussion.
Harry Truman
-Vice president until FDR died. Became president in few months
-Senator in Missoure
-Not a great person in front of crowds.
-Rough and tumble and swore a lot.
-Unpopular president left office at 22%.
Accomplishments
- launched the Atomic bomb
-put black and white troops together.
-Truman doctrine and Marshall plan.
-33 president.
-Created the CIA. Wire tapping, break ins, political assassination, fixing elections.
-Deal with American hardships and people transferring from war to peace time.
-Made sure Great Depression didn't happen again
-President when UN was created.
-Policy of containment.
-Fair Deal-Trying to help and give the common people a fair deal. People hated it b/c it was like new deal and they were tired of it.
-Got US involved in Vietnam by giving aid to France.
-Berlin airlift, NATO, McCarthyism, President during Korean war. Fired McCarthy b/c he didn't respect the president.
Eisenhower
-Supreme Commander during war. D-Day invasion captain.
-At first he wasn't on either party. Later went to Rupblic
-Won the 1952 election
-Nixon was his vice president.
-1952 and 1956 he ran against Stevenson and beat him both times with a little over 50% of votes.
-First time he was WW2 veteran, second time strong leader.
Accomplishments.
-Happy times in his presidency. Nothing bad going on.
-Fun decade when he was president.
-Worked to maintain that prosperity.
-Maintained individual things.
-Helped the unemployed and poor.
-raised minimum wage and personal income
-Created health department.
-Help create the group that built the interstate.
-Saint Lowerence sea way connected the Great Lakes to the ocean.
-Signed civil rights laws. De-segregation
-cold war dominated his presidency.
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