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 due to launch of Sputnik
- Ended the Korean War as promised in 1952
- Increased US involvement in Vietnam
- Developed idea that nuclear weapons would be defensive (deterrence)
- Brown Case 1954-sent federal troops to Little Rock, AR to help the desegragation in public schools
President John F. Kennedy
- 35th president (1961-1963)
- First and only Catholic president
- Ran against 8 yr. VP Richard Nixon and won
- Assassinated 11-22-1963 in Dallas, TX by Lee Harvey Oswald (two shots)
- Former Marine, communist, lived in USSR for a while
- L.H.O. killed on live TV by Jack Ruby
My Assigned Blog #8 topic-George H. W. Bush (include Persian Gulf War 1990) Election Results
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