Truman presidency timeline are the important events that happened during the Truman presidency.
Truman presidency timeline edit
- 1945 - April 12 - United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) dies suddenly at Warm Springs, Georgia; Vice President Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) becomes the 33rd President.
- 1945 - July 8 - WWII: Harry S. Truman was informed that Japan will talk peace if she can keep the Emperor.
- 1945 - July 21 - WWII: Harry S. Truman approves order for atomic bombs to be used.
- 1945 - July 26 - Potsdam Declaration demands Japan's unconditional surrender; Article 12 permitting Japan to retain the Emperor had been deleted by Truman.
- 1945 - August 7 - President Harry Truman announces the successful bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1945 - November 15 - Harry S. Truman, Clement Attlee, and Mackenzie King call for a UN Atomic Energy Commission.
- 1946 - December 31 - President Harry Truman delivers Proclamation 2714, which officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.
- 1947 - March 12 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- 1947 - May 22 - Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, President Harry S. Truman signs an act implementing the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.
- 1947 - June 23 - The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
- 1947 - July 18 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President.
- 1947 - July 26 - Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into law, creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
- 1948 - April 3 - President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
- 1948 - June 20 - U.S.Congress: Commencement of Congressional Recess for the remainder of 1948 after an overtime session closed on this Saturday at 0700 D.C. time (to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948).
- 1948 - July 20 - Cold War: President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt).
- 1948 - November 2 - United States presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey and Strom Thurmond for the US presidency.
- 1949 - January 5 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
- 1949 - January 20 - Elected U.S. President Harry S. Truman begins his full term.
- 1950 - January 31 - President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb in response to the detonation the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949.
- 1950 - September 30 - NSC-68 enacted by President Truman, setting US foreign policy for the next twenty years.
- 1950 - November 1 - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman, who is staying at the Blair-Lee House in Washington, D.C. during White House repairs.
- 1950 - November 30 - Truman threatens to use nuclear weapons in Korea.
- 1950 - President Harry Truman sends United States military advisers to Vietnam to aid French forces.
- 1951 - April 11 - President Truman relieves General MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands.
- 1951 - May 3 - The U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begins its closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
- 1951 - October 24 - President Truman declares official end to war with Germany.
- 1952 - March 29 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces that he will not seek reelection.
- 1952 - April 8 - Hours before the 1952 steel strike is to begin, President Harry S. Truman nationalizes all steel mills in the United States—creating a dispute which led to landmark legal ruling in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer.
- 1953 - January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
- 1953 - January 20 - Change of US presidency from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961).