Harry S Truman Biography and Timeline

Birth of Harry S Truman

Birth of Harry S Truman

President of USA

Appointed President of the USA, 33rd President, 1st term

Role range: 1945-1953 – 1945-1953

First Manhattan Project Briefing

Truman learns of the secret atomic-bomb development programme from Secretary of War Henry Stimson shortly after becoming president.

VE Day

The day that marks victory in Europe for the Allies in World War II, the defining events were the Germans unconditional surrender Eisenhower at Rheims, France, and to the Soviets in Berlin on May 7, President Truman announces victory at 9 AM. Makes the announcement of Allied victory over the Axis powers in Europe at 3 PM

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Rule of Germany

USA., Britain, Russia & France declare supreme authority over Germany

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Charter

Witnesses the signing of the charter of the United Nations

Role range: 1945-1953 – 1945-1953

United Nations

Witnesses the signing of the charter of the United Nations. Calls the United Nations "a great instrument for peace & security & human progress in the world"

Role range: 1945-1953 – 1945-1953

Charter

Witnesses the signing of the charter of the United Nations

Role range: 1945-1953

Operation Downfall

The Allies prepare for the land invasion of Japan, the plan is scrapped

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Manhattan Project

General Carl Spaatz is ordered to bomb one of the targets: Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, or Nagasaki as soon as weather permitted, some time after August 3

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Trinity Nuclear Test

The United States conducts the Trinity test, the first detonation of a nuclear explosive device.

Role range: 1945-1953

Bombing of Japan

General Carl Spaatz is ordered to bomb one of the targets: Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, or Nagasaki as soon as weather permitted, some time after August 3

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Invention of Atomic Bomb

With Allied leaders in Potsdam when he hears news of the succesful test explosion

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Manhattan Project

General Carl Spaatz is ordered to bomb one of the targets: Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, or Nagasaki as soon as weather permitted, some time after August 3

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Conference of Potsdam

Soviet power in Eastern Europe is recognized. Polands western frontier will follow the Oder-Neisse line. Germany will divided into 4 zones. Churchill, Stalin & Truman agree the map for post war Europe

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

first Atomic weapons

President Harry S. Truman discloses to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that the United States has atomic weapons, Stalin feigns little surprise; he already knows this through espionage

Role range: 1945-1953

1st Atomic Weapons

President Harry S. Truman discloses to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that the United States has atomic weapons, Stalin feigns little surprise; he already knows this through espionage

Role range: 1945-1953 – 1945-1953

Bombing of Hiroshima

Decides to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Declaration of Potsdam

USA, Britain & Nationalist China calls for unconditional Japanese surrender. The US, Britain & Nationalist China calls for unconditional Japanese surrender

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Manhattan Project

President Harry S. Truman discloses to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that the United States has atomic weapons, Stalin feigns little surprise; he already knows this through espionage

Role range: 1945-1953 – 1945-1953

Ultimatum-Potsdam

The Japanese have to choose "utter devastation or unconditional surrender"

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Bretton Woods Agreements Act

Truman signs legislation authorising United States participation in the IMF and World Bank, implementing the institutions supporting the new dollar-gold monetary order.

Role range: 1945-1953

Bombing of Hiroshima

"Little Boy" is loaded onto the Enola Gay

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Hiroshima Atomic Bombing

The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the first wartime use of a nuclear weapon.

Role range: 1945-1953

Manhattan Project

"Fat Man", an implosion-type plutonium-239 weapon, is used against the city of Nagasaki, Japan

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Nagasaki Atomic Bombing

The United States drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki three days after Hiroshima.

Role range: 1945-1953

Bombing of Nagasaki

The USA drops the atomic bomb on Nagasaki

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Further Atomic Bombing Halted

Truman orders that no additional atomic bombs be used without further presidential authority.

Smyth Report

The Smyth Report is released to the public, giving the first technical history of the development of the first atomic bombs

Role range: 1945-1953

Smyth Report

The Smyth Report was the common name given to an administrative history written by physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth about the Allied World War II effort to develop the atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project. The Smyth Report is released to the public, giving the first technical history of the development of the first atomic bombs

Role range: 1945-1953

Manhattan Project

The Smyth Report is released to the public, giving the first technical history of the development of the first atomic bombs

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Smyth Report

The Smyth Report is released to the public, giving the first technical history of the development of the first atomic bombs

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Result of Surrender of Japan

The United States announces Japan's unconditional surrender and the end of major Pacific hostilities.

Role range: 1945-1953 – 1945-1953

Surrender of Japan

Announces the unconditional surrender of Japan

Role range: 1945-1953 – 1945-1953

Bombing of Nagasaki

"Fat Man", an implosion-type plutonium-239 weapon, is used against the city of Nagasaki, Japan

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Fat Man

"Fat Man", an implosion-type plutonium-239 weapon, is used against the city of Nagasaki, Japan

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Manhattan Project

"Fat Man", an implosion-type plutonium-239 weapon, is used against the city of Nagasaki, Japan

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1945-1953

Invasion of Korea

By the end of the yr 50,000 marines are in Korea

Role range: 1945-1953 – 1945-1953

Mobilization

By the end of the yr 50,000 marines are in Korea

Role range: 1945-1953 – 1945-1953

Naval Base

The US establishes a naval base at Tsingtao

Role range: 1945-1953 – 1945-1953