Harry Truman Earth-Shattering Events

Birth of President Harry Truman

May 8, 1884

Wedding Date

Jun 28, 1919

Married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace

Harry Truman's Child is Born

Feb 17, 1924

Elizabeth gives birth to Margaret Truman Daniel

Truman takes office

Apr 12, 1945

He took office upon the death of his predecessor Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Germany surrenders

May 8, 1945

This was the end of the war in Europe. Germany surrendered after the recent death of Adolf Hitler.

Bombing of Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima ordered by President Harry Truman.

Bombing of Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

3 days after the bombing of Hiroshima, another B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki ordered by President Harry Truman.

Truman Signs "Truman Doctrine"

May 22, 1947

This was saying that the United States would provide military, economic, and political assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

Truman addresses the NAACP

Jun 29, 1947

This is earth-shattering because he is the first president to address the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People.

Truman is Re-elected as POTUS

Nov 2, 1948

This was one of the biggest upsets in Presidential election history, when Truman defeated Republican governor Thomas Dewey

Soviet Union ends blockade of Berlin

May 12, 1949

On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union blocked the West of Berlin. Almost 9 months later the Soviet Union lifts the Berlin blockade. Though the wall did not yet fall.

Truman signs Housing Act

Jul 15, 1949

Truman signs the housing act, established a national housing agency, and provided federal aid to slum clearance programs and low-cost housing projects.

Soviet Union gets the bomb

Sep 23, 1949

Truman announces that the Soviet Union has detonated an atomic bomb.

Truman announces H-bomb

Jan 31, 1950

Truman announces that the United States will develop a hydrogen bomb.

Truman orders troops to Korea

Jun 30, 1950

North Korea invades South Korea, and Truman announces that he has ordered American ground forces stationed in Japan to Korea.

Truman declares national state of emergency

Dec 16, 1950

Truman declares a state of national emergency and impose wage and price controls.

Truman signs Mutual Security Act

Oct 10, 1951

The act authorized more than $7 billion dollars for foreign economic, military, and technical aid.

U.S. tests first H-bomb

Nov 1, 1952

The United States detonated the first hydrogen bomb.

Harry Truman ends his second term as President

Jan 20, 1953

After his second term, although exempt from the newly ratified 22nd amendment decided not to run for a third term as POTUS.

Death of President Harry Truman

Dec 26, 1972

He died in Kansas City, MO, caused by old age rather than any specific ailment.