WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman’s to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became America’s 33rd President.

Detailed explanation-2: -As the war drew to a close, Roosevelt’s health deteriorated, and on April 12, 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Learn more about Franklin D. Roosevelt’s spouse, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.

Detailed explanation-3: -Truman was sworn in as president of the United States on April 12, 1945, after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Detailed explanation-4: -After President Roosevelt died on April 12th, 1945, it became Harry Truman’s job to decide how to end the war.

Detailed explanation-5: -Although exempted from the newly ratified Twenty-second Amendment, Truman did not run again in the 1952 election because of his low popularity. He was succeeded by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953.

Detailed explanation-6: -In July 1944, Truman was nominated to run for Vice President with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. On January 20, 1945, he took the vice-presidential oath, and after President Roosevelt’s unexpected death only eighty-two days later on April 12, 1945, he was sworn in as the nations’ thirty-third President.