Harry S. Truman: Timeline

1884   Born

1945   United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) dies suddenly at Warm Springs, Georgia; Vice President Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) takes the Oath of Offi

1945   In Atlantic, ships can finally keep their lights lit. Leo Szilard begs Harry S. Truman not to use the bomb.

1945   World War II: Harry S. Truman informed that Japan Japan

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 will talk peace if she can keep the Emperor.

1945   World War II: Harry S. Truman approves order for atomic bombs to be used.

1945   Harry S. Truman, Clement Attlee Clement Attlee

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, and Mackenzie King call for a UN Atomic Energy Commission.

1947   Cold War Cold War

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: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism Communism

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, President Harry S. Truman signs an act implementing the Truman Doctrine. The act granted $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey Turkey

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 and Greece Greece

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1947   The United States Senate United States Senate

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 follows the United States House of Representatives United States House of Representatives

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 in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto Veto

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 of the Taft-Hartley Act.

1947   President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore President pro tempore of the United States Senate

The President pro tempore of the United States Senate is the second-highest-ranking official of the ... 

 next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President.

1947   Cold War Cold War

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: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency Central Intelligence Agency

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, Department of Defense United States Department of Defense

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, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.

1948   Cold War Cold War

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: President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States United States

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 amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union Soviet Union

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 (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt).

1948   U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the US presidency President of the United States

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1949   U.S. President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.

1950   Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman, who is staying at the Blair-Lee House in Washington, D.C. during White House repairs.

1951   The U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begins its closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur

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 by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

1953   President President of the United States

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 Harry S. Truman announces the United States United States

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 has developed a hydrogen bomb.

1953   Change of US presidency President of the United States

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 from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) to Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower

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 (1953-1961).

1972   Died