Dates in Office: 1945-1953
Important Information:
- He served in combat in France in World War I in the National Guard.
- Truman became a Missouri senator in 1935.
- Truman became president after President Roosevelt died do to declining health.
- He became the head of the wartime Truman Committee which worked to expose waste, fraud and corruption within wartime contracts.
- President Truman ordered the use of the atomic bomb against Japan, believing that it would spare many American lives.
- Truman's presidency was an important turning point regarding foreign affairs.
- He assisted in founding the United Nations.
- President Truman also issued the Truman Doctrine and passed the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe.
- Truman oversaw the Berlin Airlift and the creation of NATO in 1949.
- He gained United Nations approval for the Korean War after North Korea invaded South Korea.