Harry S. Truman

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Bess was a year younger than Truman and when he first purposed in 1911, she did not seem too eager to marry. Bess let Truman dangle for three weeks before turning him down. Eight years later they finally were wed and together they only had one child, a daughter named Margaret...
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With the encouragement from friend Tom Prendergast, Truman entered politics himself and was soon elected as county judge in 1992. After only two years as county judge, Truman became presiding judge, which he continued for the next eight years of his life...
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Why did Truman decide to consider the civil war in Korea as part of the cold war and as evidence of communist aggression? By 1948, the communist Soviet's and the capitalist Americans agreed to a temporarily partitioning of Korea along the 38th parallel of latitude into a northern Soviet zone and a southern American zone...	5 / 1182
North Korea Surprise Attack On June 25, 1950 the North Korean army attacked South Korea, crossing the 38th Parallel. Pentagon officials were stunned, and had no immediate contingency plan ready...	1 / 242
How Far Was The Korean War A Militant And Political Success For The Us? The world was by taken by surprise when North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel in June 1950. The war that followed soon snowballed out of proportion, spreading out to involve China, the Soviet Union, and the UN and is said by historians to have shaped US foreign policy as it is today...	5 / 1148
K0rean War In WW II, Japan had gained control in Korea. At the end, when Japan was defeated by the Allies, the US and Soviet forces moved in Korea . Korea was divided to serve as the purpose to move the Japanese troops out...	5 / 1355
K0rean War In WW II, Japan had gained control in Korea. At the end, when Japan was defeated by the Allies, the US and Soviet forces moved in Korea . Korea was divided to serve as the purpose to move the Japanese troops out...	5 / 1355
cold war With the US, UN, and South Korean forces pinned against the sea at Pusan, MacArthur orchestrated a daring amphibious attack on Inchon a port on the western coast of Korea...	5 / 1188
The Korean War For hundreds of years Korea was dominated by the Chinese empire. After Japan was defeated by the allies in WW II., Korea became occupied by the Russians in the North and the Americans in the South...	4 / 842