President Harry S. Truman Timeline
 

Harry S. Truman Timeline

Harry S. Truman Timeline
Short Biography of President Harry S. Truman
Lifespan: 1884 - 1972
Born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri
Harry S. Truman died on December 26, 1972 in Independence, Missouri
thirty-third President of America - His term in office was from 1945 to 1953
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Why was Harry S. Truman famous?
Harry S. Truman was famous as the thirty-third President of the United States of America. He made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan leading to the end of World War II. On his desk, Truman had a plaque that said "The Buck Stops Here." The next US President was Dwight D Eisenhower. 

  1884Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri 
     
  1904Panama Canal Zone acquired 
     
  1905Franklin Roosevelt was married to Anna Eleanor Roosevelton March 17, 1905 They had 6 children 
     
  1908Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)  established 
     
  1914WW1 started 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 
     
  1919Treaty of Versailles 
     
  1919Harry Truman was married to Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman on June 28, 1919. They had 1 child. 
     
  1924Indian Reorganization Act 
     
  1927Charles Lindbergh makes first trans-Atlantic flight
The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson is the first "talkie" to be released		 
     
  1929Great Depression begins 
     
  1922-24Harry Truman became Judge on Jackson County Court, 1922-24 
     
  1926-34 Harry Truman became Presiding Judge of Jackson County Court, 1926-34 
     
  1935-45Harry Truman became United States Senator, 1935-45 
     
  1939Germany invades Poland; World War II begins 
     
  1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
U.S. enters World War II		 
     
  1945Harry Truman became Vice President, 1945 (under F.D. Roosevelt) 
     
  19451945 Harry S. Truman became the President of the United States of America 
     
  1945Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945
End of World War II (1945)
United Nations Created (1945)
Nuremburg Trials (1945-1946)		 
     
  1946The Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union 
     
  1947Truman Doctrine (1947)
Taft-Hartley Act - labor law moderately restricting union activity (1947)		 
     
  1949NATO Treaty (1949) 
     
  1950-1953Korean Conflict (1950-1953) South Korea, an American ally, was invaded by the communist North Korea 
     
  19531953 The Presidency of Harry S. Truman ended 
     
  1957Civil Rights Act of 1957
Russians launch Sputnik		 
     
  1958NASA formed 
     
  1959Cuban Revolution  
     
  1960Greensboro sit-in
Civil Rights Act of 1960		 
     
  1961Peace Corps
Vietnam War officially begins with 900 military advisors landing in Saigon
OPEC formed		 
     
  1962Cuban Missile Crisis 
     
  1963President J Kennedy assassinated
March on Washington; Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream" speech		 
     
  1964Civil Rights Act of 1964 
     
  1968Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
Civil Rights Act of 1968		 
     
  1969Vietnam
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon		 
     
  1972Harry Truman died of Heart Failure on December 26, 1972 in Independence, Missouri. He was buried in the courtyard of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library. 
     
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