 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Select > Who • What • When • Where • Which • Widgets |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Timeline |
|
 |
|
Item |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Harry Truman, 33rd President USA > 
Harry Truman was president of America (1945-1952) after the death of F.D. Roosevelt in April 1945. Harry Truman gave the order for the atomic bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and he represented the United States at Potsdam, the last of the great war meetings.
Truman’s experience at the very top of American Politics was minimal. Therefore, when Roosevelt died in April 1945, Truman was suddenly thrust into the whole international scene that was occurring in both Europe and the Far East. In view of his lack of experience, Truman said to some journalists at his swearing in, "Boys, pray for me now."
American intelligence claimed that any American landing in Japan would lead to a minimum of 1 million US casualties. This was clearly untenable and would have been an electoral liability. Hence Truman authorised the use of ‘Little Boy’ and the ‘Fat Man’ against targets in Japan.
|
| |
|
|
|
More on this Website >
• http://www.historylearningsite ... .uk/harry_truman.htm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The White House, US Presidents
For two hundred years, the White House has stood as a symbol of the Presidency, the United States government, and the American people. Its history, and the history of the... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sir Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was a politician, a soldier, an artist, and the 20th century's most famous and celebrated Prime Minister. His father was Lord Randolph Churchill, a Nine... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until 1953. Stalin's increasing control of the Party from 192... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Douglas MacArthur, US General WW2
Douglas MacArthur is a major figure in the US military and diplomatic history of WWII and post-WWII. As general of the army, he helped conquer the Japanese Empire and pla... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd US President
Thirty-Second President USA, 1933-1945. Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in the... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
General Hideki Tojo, Japan WW2
Prime Minister, Chief of Staff of the Army, and Minister of War from October 1941 until July 1944. Tojo could almost be described as the dictator of Japan. He was the pri... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ass... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President USA
Thirty-Fourth President USA,1953-1961. Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eis... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan
Hirohito, the Showa Emperor, reigned over Japan from 1926 to 1989. He was known in the West by his given name Hirohito (he had no surname). He was the 124th Emperor of Ja... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
McCarthy, Anti-communist Pursuits
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face o... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Korean War
North Korea launched its invasion of the South with every confidence that they would win the war in a month or two. They were well armed by the USSR, their ranks filled w... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
UN : United Nations
The name "United Nations", coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was first used in the "Declaration by United Nations" of 1 January 1942, during the... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Atom Bomb on Hiroshima, WW2
On 6th August 1945, a B29 bomber (Enola Gay) dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima. It has been estimated that over the years around 200,000 people have died as a result of t... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris). The Guin... |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
 |
|
•
: double-click any word
|