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The President Truman
Harry Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in the house of farmer in Missouri and was the eldest among all of his siblings. Harry Truman completed his study until the high school and had not attended the college life, after which he had done various jobs as a clerk, time keeper and a farmer. Truman appeared in World War one as a volunteer and after coming back from the war he got married in 1919 in and had started a business. With the declining American’s economy his business was lost after which he performed the judicial task as an administrative judge. Truman was elected as a 33rd president after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944. After taking oath as president he made serious changes in the country’s foreign policy thus he had made a strong yet robust action with respect to the countries. He ended the World War 2 by attacking the nuclear bomb on the two cities of japan i.e Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and drew the troops of the United Nations of American into the Korean War. He made a certain bold decision on his …show more content…

As soon as Truman took oath as 33rd president of the United States, within the six months of his presidency, he ended the World War 2 by attacking on the Japan with the nuclear weapons and destroyed two of cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki completely. This was bold yet wrong decision taken by the Truman as still the human and animal generations of the two afflicted countries are suffering from the hazardous radioactive effects. Not only had this in order to get down the Soviet Union, Truman committed for the assistance of the US troops in South Korea against the North Korea, but due to the Japanese assistance to the North Korea with its troops, Truman strategy went in vain (Editors,

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