Thursday, May 3, 2007

Harry Truman (1949-1989)


Harry S Truman became U.S. President when President Roosevelt died in 1945. (His middle name was just "S" without the period.) He was responsible for dropping the Atomic Bombs on Japan and ending World War II. Truman started the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after the war. He started his second term in 1949, defeating Thomas Dewey. During his second term, the Korean War was fought.

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