33 Harry S. Truman Postkarte

Harry S. Truman 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States, taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In World War Veteran, he assumed the presidency during the waning months of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. He is known for implementing the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe, for the establishment of the Truman Doctrine and NATO against Soviet and Chinese Communism, and for intervention in the Korean War. In domestic affairs, he was a moderate Democrat wliberhose al propoals were a auffangende of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, but the konservative-dominated congress blocked of them. He used the veto power 180 times, more than any president since and saw 12 overridden by Congress; only Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt used the veto more, gerald Johnson saw and Andrew Saw so many veto overrides. He is the only world leader to have used nuclear weapons in war. He desegregated the U.S. Armed Forces, supported a newly independent Israel and was a founder of the United Nations.