General Information:
Major "Events" of his Presidency:
- Harry S. Truman was the thirty-third President of the nation with no Vice President for his first term and Dwight D. Eisenhower as his Vice President for his second term.
- Truman served in combat in France as an artillery officer in his National Guard unit and as the head of the wartime Truman Committee, which exposed waste, fraud, and corruption in wartime contracts.
Major "Events" of his Presidency:
- The second World War comes to an end in Europe on May 8th, 1945.
- The U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th, 1945 and August 9th, 1945, respectively.
- Japan surrenders, ending the second World War in Asia.
- The 21-Point Plan, often referred to as the "Fair Deal," proposed.
- The Presidential signing of the Employment Act.
- The establishment of the Federal Employee Loyalty Program.
- The Presidential signing of the “Truman Doctrine” appropriation.
- The Presidential veto and eventual Congressional signing of the Taft-Hartley Act.
- The Congressional signing of the National Security Act.
- The Congressional signing of the European Recovery Program (the “Marshall Plan”)
- The Presidential veto and eventual Congressional signing of the Internal Security Act.
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death following their convictions on conspiring to provide secret information to the Soviet Union.
- The Presidential signing of the Mutual Security Act.
- The Presidential veto and eventual Congressional signing of the McCarran-Walter Act.