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{{President|
{{Officeholder
|name=Harry S. Truman
|name=Harry S. Truman
|image=HTruman.jpg
|image=HTruman.jpg
|party=
|party=Democratic
|spouse=Bess Wallace Truman
|spouse=Bess Wallace Truman
|religion=[[Southern Baptist Convention|Southern Baptist]]
|religion=[[Southern Baptist Convention|Southern Baptist]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/president
|country=the United States
|number=33rd
|terms=April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953
|vp=None (1945–1949)<br/>[[Alben Barkley]] (1949–1953)
|preceded=[[Franklin Roosevelt]]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Dwight Eisenhower]]
}}
{{Officeholder/vice president
|country=the United States
|number=34th
|terms=January 20, 1945 – April 12, 1945
|president=[[Franklin Roosevelt]]
|preceded=[[Henry Wallace]]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Alben Barkley]]
}}
{{Officeholder/senator
|state=Missouri
|terms=January 3, 1935 – January 17, 1945
|preceded=Roscoe Patterson
|former=y
|succeeded=Frank Briggs
}}
}}
}}
'''Harry S. Truman,''' (1884-1972) a [[liberal]] [[Democrat]] from [[Missouri]], was the president of the United States from 1945-1953, taking over when [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] died in April 1945. He made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to force Japan's surrender. Angered at the Soviet Union's seizure of eastern Europe, he moved away from FDR's [[détente]] to a policy of [[containment]], reinforced by the Truman Plan (1947) to resist Communist subversion, the [[Marshall Plan]] (1948-51) to rebuild and modernize western Europe's economies, and the [[NATO]] military alliance of 1949. Truman, advised by [[Dean Acheson]] and the State Department, set the policies to oppose the Soviet Union as the [[Cold War]] began.
'''Harry S. Truman,''' (1884-1972) a [[liberal]] [[Democrat]] from [[Missouri]], was the president of the United States from 1945-1953, taking over when [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] died in April 1945. He made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to force Japan's surrender. Angered at the Soviet Union's seizure of eastern Europe, he moved away from FDR's [[détente]] to a policy of [[containment]], reinforced by the Truman Plan (1947) to resist Communist subversion, the [[Marshall Plan]] (1948-51) to rebuild and modernize western Europe's economies, and the [[NATO]] military alliance of 1949. Truman, advised by [[Dean Acheson]] and the State Department, set the policies to oppose the Soviet Union as the [[Cold War]] began.