Biography
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. As the 34th vice president in 1945, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in April. Truman set up the Marshall Plan to rebuild the badly damaged economy of Western Europe. He established the Truman Doctrine and supported the founding of NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. A member of the Democratic Party, he proposed numerous New Deal coalition liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated the United States Congress.
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Awards & recognition
- Silver T-Square Award · 1950
- Armed Forces Reserve Medal
- Congressional Gold Medal
- World War II Victory Medal
- Nobel Peace Prize · 1966 · nominated
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- Nobel Peace Prize · 1953 · nominated
- Nobel Peace Prize · 1950 · nominated
- Nobel Peace Prize · 1948 · nominated
Filmography35 titles
Atomic People
The Vietnam War
Greatest Events of WWII in Colour
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Race for the White House
Korea: The Never-Ending War
The Jack Benny Program
Uncle Tom
Hearts and Minds
1945: The Savage Peace
The Untold History of the United States
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Corporation
The Day After Trinity
When the Wind Blows
Propaganda: Engineering Consent
Superpower
UFO
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
The Atomic Cafe
Crusade in Europe
FDR
History 101
Hiroshima
The Front
It's Always Fair Weather
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
The Presidents
American Experience
A Compassionate Spy
Strip Search
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Where's My Roy Cohn?
First Ladies
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard