Blog discussion to day. No assigned blog this week.
Harry Truman-33rd pres.-1945-1953--Became vice president for FDR in January 1945-took over for FDR when he died April 1945-One of the most unpopular presidents of all time when he left office-rating has improved over the years-he was in one election against thomas Dewey- truman won 49 percent of the popular vote but eventually won the election. Civil Rights Accomplishments-He tried to deal with racism and tried to help the African american. He did alot for the African americans. He had a ten point plan that pushed to d......he did stuff in WW2-Dropped the a-bomb etc.-the economy was struggling going from a wartime economy to peace time economy-he helped with the United nations-Created the CIA and the National Security Council-Took a hard line stance against communism and the soviet union-policy of containment-The Buck stops here-The FAIR DEAL-similar to FDR's new deal, aimed to promote the economy and social welfare, faced alot of optimism form the southern democrats and republican, most proposal did not get passed, Civil rights, housing social security minimmum wage health labor education agriculture-got the US involved in vietnam by giving aid to France-Recognized a a homeland for the jewish people-Fired General Douglas McArther, because he talked about dropping an a-bomb on china, Truman didnt want to go to war with China and maybe the Soviet Union-There were a couple of assination attemps over Puerto Rican Independence.
Dwight Eisenhower(R)-34th pres-1953-1961-Famous WW2 general-Decided to join the republican party after ww2-guarenteed him to win the election--in 52 he ran against adly stevenston-first republican in office since hoover-he was big on civil rights he promised to end the korean war- I like ike-accomplishments-the interstate system-he feared that the people would need an excape system and the military would need to get around quickly-helped end the korean war-developed NASA-kept the new deal programs-really wanted to desegregate the country- used the CIA to do covert-operations to disrupt communist governments-Plessy vs Ferguson- Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka-really started the desegregation of schools. it took twenty years for the desegragaiton to take place.-deported a lot of illegal immigrants.
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