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Truman's World War II Leadership and Postwar Turning Points
A concise view of Harry S. Truman’s rise from farmer and senator to president after Roosevelt's death in 1945. He ordered the bomb on Japan, helped found the United Nations, led postwar reconstruction, and integrated the armed forces. He fired General MacArthur during the Korean War and ordered U.S. troops to Korea in 1950.
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