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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Harry S. Truman.
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  • Politics [r]: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. [e]
  • History [r]: Study of past human events based on evidence such as written documents. [e]

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  • Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
  • Dean Acheson [r]: An American diplomat (1893-1971) primarily responsible for shaping foreign policy during the Truman administration and early Cold War. [e]
  • Fair Deal [r]: The liberal domestic policies recommended to Congress by U.S. President Harry Truman in his second term, 1949-52. Few proposals passed. [e]
  • Korean War [r]: (1950-1953) war on the Korean peninsula in which about 3 million people died (mostly civilians), begun when North Korea, backed by China, attempted to overrun South Korea, which had been placed under the control of U.S.-led United Nations forces after the surrender of Japan at the end of WW II. [e]

List of Presidents of the United States of America

  1. George Washington [r]: (1732-1799) First U.S. President (from 1789 to 1797) and commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. [e]
  2. John Adams [r]: (1735-1826) Second U.S. President (from 1797 to 1801), attorney who successfully defended participants of the Boston Massacre of 1770, and a U.S. founding father. [e]
  3. Thomas Jefferson [r]: (1743-1826) Third U.S. President (from 1801 to 1809), first U.S. Secretary of State (from 1789 to 1793), author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia. [e]
  4. James Madison [r]: (1751–1836) Fourth U.S. President (from 1809 to 1817), author of some the Federalist Papers, Secretary of State, and one of the most influential U.S. founding fathers. [e]
  5. James Monroe [r]: (1758-1831) Fifth U.S. President (from 1817 to 1825), creator of the Monroe Doctrine and a lessening of partisan tensions known as the "Era of Good Feelings." [e]
  6. John Quincy Adams [r]: (1767-1848) Sixth U.S. President (from 1825 to 1829), and son of President John Adams. [e]
  7. Andrew Jackson [r]: (1767-1845) Seventh U.S. President (from 1829 to 1837), general defeating the British at New Orleans in 1815; sponsored the violent removal of Native Americans from Tennessee to Oklahoma. [e]
  8. Martin Van Buren [r]: (1782-1862) Eighth U.S. President (from 1837 to 1841) and a close ally of President Andrew Jackson. [e]
  9. William Henry Harrison [r]: (1773–1841) Ninth U.S. President (1841, succeeded upon his death by vice-president John Tyler), first governor of Indiana Territory, and a senator representing Ohio. [e]
  10. John Tyler [r]: (1790–1862) Tenth U.S. President (from 1841 to 1845), responsible for the annexation of Texas leading up to the Mexican-American War. [e]
  11. James K. Polk [r]: (1795–1849) Eleventh U.S. President (from 1845-1849) who prosecuted the Mexican-American War and oversaw the largest territorial expansion in American history. [e]
  12. Zachary Taylor [r]: (1784–1850) Twelfth U.S. President (from 1849 to 1850) and the general who led the U.S. army in the Mexican-American War. [e]
  13. Millard Fillmore [r]: The thirteenth President of the United States of America following the death of President Zachary Taylor. [e]
  14. Franklin Pierce [r]: (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) The 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. [e]
  15. James Buchanan [r]: Only U.S. President (15th), 1857-1861, that never married. Democratic Senator and Secretary of State under President James K. Polk. [e]
  16. Abraham Lincoln [r]: (1809-65) Sixteenth U.S. President (from 1861 to 1865) who prosecuted the American Civil War to reclaim 11 seceding states and abolish slavery; assassinated in 1865 near the beginning of his second term. Considered the greatest of all American presidents. [e]
  17. Andrew Johnson [r]: The 17th president of the United States of America (1865-69) after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865. [e]
  18. Ulysses S. Grant [r]: (1822-1885) American general and 18th president of the United States (1869-1877). [e]
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  25. William McKinley [r]: Add brief definition or description
  26. Theodore Roosevelt [r]: Add brief definition or description
  27. William Howard Taft [r]: Add brief definition or description
  28. Woodrow Wilson [r]: Add brief definition or description
  29. Warren G. Harding [r]: Add brief definition or description
  30. Calvin Coolidge [r]: Add brief definition or description
  31. Herbert Hoover [r]: Add brief definition or description
  32. Franklin D. Roosevelt [r]: Add brief definition or description
  33. Harry S. Truman
  34. Dwight D. Eisenhower [r]: Add brief definition or description
  35. John F. Kennedy [r]: Add brief definition or description
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