WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Roosevelt, who had been a victim of Guillain-Barré Syndrome early in life, died in April 1945, and Truman assumed the Presidency through the end of the war.

Detailed explanation-2: -During World War II he headed the Senate war investigating committee, checking into waste and corruption and saving perhaps as much as 15 billion dollars. As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history. Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 empowering military authorities to relocate residents of “military areas” to prevent sabotage and espionage.

Detailed explanation-4: -Truman became the 33rd president of the United States upon the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945. Truman led the country through the final stages of World War II and the tense early years of the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-5: -Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York, rose to global political prominence with the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) and his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945), whose wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was Theodore’s niece.