PPT-APUSH Review: The Presidency of Harry Truman

Everything You Need To Know About Harry Truman To Succeed In APUSH wwwApushreviewcom Background on Truman FDRs VP during his 4 th term Becomes president upon FDRs death on April 12 1945. K                     About Constitution Day Close your eyes.Can you see a big,round bubble?Gently,it floats through the air.Quietly,up and up itgoes.The light makes the bubble sh Do Nagasaki and Hiroshima constitute a crime against humanity?. Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) prohibits the unlawful killing of civilians during wartime.. Between 150,000-240,000 civilians died as a result of both bombs, another 2,000 died later in Hiroshima from cancers that could be directly traced to the radiation emitted by the blast.. Libertyville HS. Election of 1944. Dem nominee: FDR (of course . . . ). GOP nominee: Thomas Dewey (NY governor). Campaign focused on New Deal, FDR’s popularity. Wartime successes during campaign. Everything You Need To . K. now . A. bout The Election of 1948 To Succeed In APUSH. www.Apushreview.com. Key Ideas Before The Election. World War II ended in 1945, The Cold War was in full effect. 1947. Harry S Truman. 33. rd. President of the United States. . Birth and Childhood. Born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. Born to John and Martha Truman. Grew up on his grandparents’ farm in Grandview. Background. Born in Lamar, MO (1884). MO a former slave state. Maternal and paternal grandparents had owned slaves. Ancestors supported the Confederacy. Moved to Independence (1890). Segregation and racism are prevalent. Everything You Need To . K. now . A. bout . The Presidency of . Richard Nixon To Succeed In APUSH. www.Apushreview.com. Background on Nixon. Communist Hunter. HUAC. Vice-President under Eisenhower. Lost the election of 1960. Everything You Need To . K. now . A. bout The Election of 1912 To Succeed In APUSH. www.Apushreview.com. Key Ideas Before The Election. William Howard Taft was the incumbent president. Was hand-picked by Roosevelt to be his successor. American System . (Part of Key Concept 4.2). Everything You Need To . K. now About Henry Clay’s American System To Succeed In APUSH. www.Apushreview.com. The New Curriculum. Key Concept 4.2, II, B. “Despite some governmental and private efforts to create a unified national economy, most notably the AMERICAN SYSTEM, the shift to market production linked the North and Midwest more closely than either was linked to the South.”. Chapter 26 AMSCO. Themes. Containment. Communism. UN. Nuclear Proliferation. Introduction. WWII. Isolationist to military superpower, world affairs leader. Revitalized American Economy. Cold War. Democratic United States vs. Communist Soviet Union. Truman and the atomic bomb . FDR dies April 12, 1945. Truman becomes President . Atomic Bomb dropped August 6. ,. 1945. Truman’s “Get Tough” Style. Truman had a personality ill suited for diplomacy. . 1945 - 1952. Truman as President . April 12, 1945. NOT FDR. No $$, no college, failed business. ‘34- Senator. Decisive, blunt, loyal, confident, self-assured. What’s the plan?. New Deal .  - New Dealers . Background. Born in Lamar, MO (1884). MO a former slave state. Maternal and paternal grandparents had owned slaves. Ancestors supported the Confederacy. Moved to Independence (1890). Segregation and racism are prevalent. Let’s Review- Harry Potter Genetics Question 1 Harry has dark brown hair like his father, but his mom had red hair. Using the genotypes of B and b, what possible genotypes does each of the Potters have?