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Birthday: July 14, 1913
Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska
President number: 38th
Number of terms: 1
Age at Inauguration: 60
Age at Death: 93
Place of Burial: Grand Rapids, MI
Religion: Episcopal -
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States, from 1945 to 1953. He became president when President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office. As president, Truman made important foreign policy decisions, such as using atomic weapons on Japan to end World War II, repairing Europe (which was destroyed during the war), beginning the Cold War, and getting the U.S. involved in the Korean War. -
Communism, an ideology rooted in the theories of French utopian socialists, was molded by theorist Karl Marx into a political doctrine espousing a classless social structure and policies that benefit the community as a whole. By the 1950s, the Communist Party under Joseph Stalin controlled the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc nations. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
The Vietnam War was fought between communist North Vietnam and the government of Southern Vietnam. The North was supported by communist countries such as the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. The South was supported by anti-communist countries, primarily the United States. -
The Wall was built in 1961.
In 1989, when George H. W. Bush was president, the Wall came down. The Soviet ruler at the time was Mikhail Gorbachev. -
Birthday: January 9, 1913
Birthplace: Yorba Linda, CA
Religion: Quaker
Occupation or Profession: U.S. House of Representatives
Military Rank: Commander
Married: Thelma (Patricia) Catherine Ryan Nixon
Children: Patricia (Tricia) and Julie Nixon
President number: 37th
Political Party: Republican
Vice President: Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford
Age at Inauguration: 56
Served: 1969-1974
Number of terms: less than 2
Died: April 22, 1994 in New York, NY
Age at Death: 81
Place of Burial: Yorba Linda,California -
Birthday: October 1, 1924
Birthplace: Plains, Georgia
Age at Inauguration: 52
Served: 1977 - 1981
Number of terms: 1
Military Rank: Lieutenant
Married: Eleanor Rosalynn Smith