Harry S. Truman and his stress leading up dropping the A-bombs

Introduction

Harry S.Truman was the 33rd President of USA. He succeeded to the presidency after the death of Roosevelt on April 12, 1945. Although he was a veteran politician and legislator, Truman had no experience in foreign affairs (Isler, p. 76). Truman played an important role during World War 1, he served as a combat as an artillery officer. After war, he joined the political party of Tom Pendergast. Truman became Vice President in 1944.

Truman Presidency

When Truman after Roosevelt's death April 12, 1945 assumed the position of president, faced with a dramatic situation. The war in Europe ended. Soviet-American relations were at ending similarly, the last conference deteriorated significantly. Conflicts began to develop in Eastern Europe and on the transmission system on loan or lease that Truman ended a few days before the German surrender. On the other hand, Truman went on the most important political and economic projects of the Roosevelt administration including the creation and building of the United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Truman was interested in good relations with Stalin, and at the same time, like Roosevelt, had a problem with the policy of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. On his first meeting with Stalin at the Potsdam conference, he praised in his diary, after the election of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, whom he regarded as a weak man (Bingham, p. 384). Truman's telephoned speech in late April 1945 opened the San Francisco Conference establishing the United Nations, and following the surrender of Germany. He participated in the historic Potsdam Conference of summer 1945, in which he amongst others divided Germany into four zones of occupation. He had no difficulty carrying out Roosevelt's war strategy, in particular given permission to proceed for the U.S. to drop an atom bomb on Hiroshima and on Nagasaki in 1945. However, he fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur as UN commander in the Korean War, over policy disagreements, which included MacArthur's desire to bomb China in pursuit of victory.Determining the will and determination were the former captain of the artillery (during the First World War).

One day, risking to fall under the tribunal, he violated a military order, but won the battle. Interest and other details: the school has been a favorite subject of Harry's story. He especially admired biographies of U.S. presidents and learned from their mistakes. "I learned that in those periods in history when leadership was lacking, the society usually find a way in the dark or at dusk - concluded that young Harry. - I understand that history should be to create people, nobody will do it for them ". It became his life's credo. Truman began to appreciate its predecessor, while its positive attitude toward Stalin quickly decreased. He was angry about the Soviet-Polish agreement on the Oder - Neisse. Communist police state system of thought, which was no better than Hitler's Germany or Mussolini's Italy. When he was on board the cruiser "Augusta" on the ...