Truman first became president after the death of FDR. He kneew about the Manhattan project which would test the worldest first atomic bombing. When he took over after FDR he kept Fdr's cabinet and told them that he was open for their advice.
Election of 1948- He was running against Dwight Eisenhower. He had a come from behind victor. Some people said that he was uncpable of winning the election.
Truman issued the Executive order 9981-This racial integrated the U.S. Arm services which means that the Arm services weren't segreted anymore.
Election of 1949- This was Trumans second term as president. Truman ran against Thomas Dewey. Truman got 49 percent of the votes and had a 303 electrol college votes. Truman was a supporter of Nato. His term was a bad one because Og the challenges with forign relations and the Soviets were making nuclear weapons faster then we could expect. He was president during the Chinese Civil war.
While Truman was president we ended up going into the Korean War. He dismissed General Macarthur which is one of the dumbest things he could have done because he was an amazing General.
NSC-68 It was a secret foreign policy which triplied the the defense budget. He did many renovations on the White house. IN 1950 Gruselo Torresola tried to kill president Truman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/harrystruman
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