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Harry S. Truman

He was called the "accidental president" and "the average man's average man." He was the first president in many years without a college education, he had farmed, served as an artillery officer in France during WWI, and failed as a haberdasher. Then he rose from precinct-level politics in Missouri to a judgeship to the U.S. Senate. Though a prot�g� of the political machine in Kansas City, he had kept his own hands clean. Truman was left with many decisions to make and one of the most out-standing is that he decided to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan to end World War II. He won a close election in 1948 under his "Fair Deal" platform which expanded FDR's New Deal.

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US History
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Chapter 39 - The Cold War Begins

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