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In the election of 1944, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt ran against Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey. Truman gained the opportunity to become the new vice presidential candidate for the Democratic party after Roosevelt let Henry A. Wallace go. Wallace’s liberal views went against much-needed support for Roosevelt’s campaign from conservative democrats. Thanks to his time as a senator, Truman was a favorable candidate for Vice President. The Democrats won the election and Roosevelt was inaugurated on January 20th, 1945 for his fourth term as President. Truman was not majorly involved in the presidency and our“had a superficial relationship with the President” (Hamby). In addition, according to Hamby, Truman “cast the tie-breaking votes to …show more content…

He also mentions a “false philosophy” plaguing the world: communism. Truman proclaims that the rewards for following communism are “deceit and mockery, poverty and tyranny,” (Truman). He states that communism “subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as the chattel of the state”, and “maintains that social wrongs can be corrected only by violence” (Truman). Four days after his inauguration, Truman gave his first speech to Congress. He mentioned Japan, Germany, and the United States’ ultimate goal from the two countries in World War II: unconditional surrender. He also states that the United States has learned to fight for its defense and freedom but needs to learn how to “trade more with other nations so that “there may be for our mutual advantage—increased production, increased employment and better standards of living throughout the world” …show more content…

It was a project between the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Over 100,000 chemists, physicists, and researchers worked on the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project, but only a few of them knew the true purpose of the project. The Manhattan Project was tightly kept a secret. Only officials such as President Roosevelt and some scientists knew. Truman himself was not aware of the Manhattan project until he became President. The bomb had been created and proved to be a success, but one of Truman’s advisors described the bomb as “as the most terrible weapon ever known in human history”

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