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Harry S. Truman
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
(May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the
33rd
President of the United States
(1945–53), an American politician of the
Democratic Party
. He served as a
United States Senator
from Missouri (1935–45) and briefly as
Vice President
(1945) before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
. He was president during the final months of
World War II
, making the decision to drop the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
. Truman was
elected in his own right in 1948
. He presided over an uncertain domestic scene as America sought its path after the war, and tensions with the
Soviet Union
increased, marking the start of the
Cold War
.
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