Harry Truman assumed the office of President of the United States when FDR died 11 weeks into his fourth term. WWII in Europe was all but over at that point, but fighting still raged in the Pacific. Truman had previously served as a Senator from Missouri. He was an Army veteran of combat in WWI, and is famous for approving the use of the atomic bombs to end WWII without an invasion of Japan, for invoking the Truman Doctrine to support countries threatened by the Soviet Union, for establishing NATO and implementing the Marshall Plan to protect and rebuild western Europe, and for desegregating the United States military. He was President when North Korea invaded South Korea in June 1950, and during almost all of the Korean War. During that war, Truman fired General MacArthur for attempting to undermine his orders denying authority to attack Chinese supply bases inside China.
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