Truman
Ordered atomic bombs
Truman is an English surname and given name, most associated with Harry S.
Truman, the 33rd president of the United States.
Truman ordered atomic bombs dropped on Japan to end World War II and initiated the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine of Soviet containment.
The Truman Show is a 1998 film about a man unknowingly living in a constructed reality.
First nuclear-struck city
- NagasakiSecond city bombed atomically
- atomic bombFission-triggered mass destruction device
- Manhattan ProjectClandestine atomic weapons program
- Trinity testInitial nuclear weapon explosion
Little Boy · Fat Man · authorization · Enola Gay · Oppenheimer · Los Alamos · plutonium · uranium
Preventing hostile expansion
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
- Berlin AirliftAllied supply mission, 1948
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
NATO · Korea · Stalin · communism · espionage · Red Scare · McCarthyism · loyalty oaths
Official presidential residence
- commander-in-chiefHighest military authority holder
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- executiveSenior organizational leader
- DemocratBlue party supporter
Missouri · inauguration · 1945 · successor · FDR · Roosevelt · statesman · leadership
Quick to conclude
- plainspokenCandid in speech
- resoluteFixed in purpose
- determinedFirmly committed to purpose
- firmSolid or resolute
unwavering · assertive · bold · tenacious · courageous · strong-willed · haberdasher · humble origins
1945 summit reshaping Europe
- unconditional surrenderYielding without any terms
- postwarAfter hostilities end
- Yalta ConferenceWartime Allied leadership summit
- ChurchillManitoba's northern port
Stalin · occupation · demobilization · veterans · GI Bill · war crimes trials · Nuremberg · wartime leadership
Hiroshima
First nuclear-struck city
- NagasakiSecond city bombed atomically
- atomic bombFission-triggered mass destruction device
- Manhattan ProjectClandestine atomic weapons program
Trinity test · Little Boy · Fat Man · authorization · Enola Gay · Oppenheimer · Los Alamos · plutonium · uranium · fission
containment
Preventing hostile expansion
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
- Berlin AirliftAllied supply mission, 1948
Marshall Plan · NATO · Korea · Stalin · communism · espionage · Red Scare · McCarthyism · loyalty oaths · Eastern Bloc
White House
Official presidential residence
- commander-in-chiefHighest military authority holder
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- executiveSenior organizational leader
Democrat · Missouri · inauguration · 1945 · successor · FDR · Roosevelt · statesman · leadership · veto
decisive
Quick to conclude
- plainspokenCandid in speech
- resoluteFixed in purpose
- determinedFirmly committed to purpose
firm · unwavering · assertive · bold · tenacious · courageous · strong-willed · haberdasher · humble origins · buck stops here
Potsdam Conference
1945 summit reshaping Europe
- unconditional surrenderYielding without any terms
- postwarAfter hostilities end
- Yalta ConferenceWartime Allied leadership summit
Churchill · Stalin · occupation · demobilization · veterans · GI Bill · war crimes trials · Nuremberg · wartime leadership
- 1940sWWII, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, VE Day
- Cold War OriginsIron Curtain, Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade, Berlin Airlift, containment policy
- Presidential BooksPromised Land, Lincoln, John Adams, Dutch
- Truman EraFair Deal, buck stops here, whistle-stop tour, Dewey, Berlin Airlift
- UN foundingUnited Nations, UN Charter, United Nations Charter, founding members, original members
- WWII 1945V-E Day, V-J Day, VE Day, VJ Day, Hiroshima
TrumanFranklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy · Dwight D. Eisenhower · Ronald Reagan · Andrew Jackson · Barack Obama
- The Truman Show
- Harry S. Truman
- Harry Truman
- Truman Capote
- Truman DoctrinePolicy opposing communist expansion