The 33rd President of The United States, Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman: During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S. Truman just he saw President Roosevelt, and did not receive any report on the development of the atomic bomb or difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and countless other problems for the wartime play Truman resolve them when in the April 12, 1945, he became President. He told reporters, "I feel like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me." Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. He grew up in Independence, and for 12 years prospered as a farmer in Missouri. He went to France during the First World War as a field artillery captain. Upon returning, he married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, and opened a business in the city of Kansas City. Active in the Democratic Party, Truman was elected judge of the court in Jackson (an administrative position) in 1922. He became a senator in 1934. During World War II, County headed the committee investigating the war Senate, checking lost and corruption and saving perhaps as much as 15 billion dollars. As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history. 

Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage. An urgent request to Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consulting his advisers, ordered the dropping atomic bombs on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese surrendered quickly. In June 1945, Truman witnessed the signing of the United Nations Charter, established in the hope of preserving peace. So far, he had followed the policies of his predecessor, but quickly developed their own policies. He presented to Congress a program 21puntos, where he proposed the extension of Social Security, a program of employability, an act of Fair Labor Practices and Permanent, and verification of public housing. The program, Truman wrote, "symbolizes for me my assumption of the office of President in my own right." It was known as the fair treatment. Dangers and crises marked the foreign scene as Truman campaigned successfully in 1948. In foreign affairs, already provided its most effective leadership. In 1947 while the Soviet Union put pressure on Turkey by the guerrillas threatened to invade Greece, he asked Congress to help the two countries, stating the program that bears his name - The Truman Doctrine.

The Marshall Plan, named after his Secretary of State, stimulated spectacular economic recovery in Western Europe destroyed. When the Russians blockaded the western sectors of Berlin in 1948, Truman created a massive airlift to supply Berliners until the Russians withdrew. Meanwhile, he was negotiating a military alliance to protect Western nations, the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO), established in 1949. In June 1950, when the communist government of North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman promptly he consulted with his military advisers. The "Full, almost without acceptance of each other, that what had to be done to address this aggression had to be done. Written had was no suggestion of any person in which the United Nations or the United States could count on. " A long and daunting struggle ensued as the U.N. forces They drew a line on the old boundary of South Korea. Truman made sure the war was limited, rather than risk a major conflict with China and perhaps Russia. Deciding not to run again, he retired to Independence; at the age of 88, he died on December 26, 1972, after a stubborn struggle for life.