Harry Truman and Independence, Missouri:
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- Aug 13 2010 8:47 PM
Kathyleen Bishop
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- Original Source:National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places
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Harry Truman and Independence, Missouri: features the home and story of our thirty-third President. Upon returning home after World War I, Truman married his childhood sweetheart, started a clothing store that failed, and was elected to a judgeship and later the U.S. Senate. He was Vice President 82 days when President Roosevelt died. As President, he used the atomic bomb to end World War II, instituted the Marshall Plan, and sent troops to defend South Korea when the North invaded.
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Topics: United States History, Branches of Government, History-Social Science, American Democracy
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HSS.11.USHGCCTC.11.10.11.11 Explain how demands of African Americans helped produce a stimulus for civil rig...
HSS.11.USHGCCTC.11.11.2 Discuss the significant domestic policy speeches of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy,...
HSS.11.USHGCCTC.11.8.3 Examine Truman's labor policy and congressional reaction to it.