Other Interesting Facts and Trivia:
- Truman was a sentaor when FDR asked him to run for vice president in 1944.
- Truman became president when FDR died unexpectedly from a stroke on April 12, 1945.
- Truman made the hard decision to drop the Atomic bomb on 2 cities in Japan. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Japan surrendered.
- Truman helped start the United Nations.
- Truman sent soldiers to South Korea to help the people at war with Communist North Korea.
- Truman's favorite quotation was "The Buck Stops Here."