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Harry Truman succeeded to presidency, 1945. To end the conflict with Japan, he authorized the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Harry introduced a program that would later be labeled the "fair Deal" that would guaranteed full employment, a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee to end racial discrimination, an increased minimum wage and extended social security benefits, price and rent controls, public housing projects, and public health insurance.

1947 he proposed a program of economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey, stating that it should be a principle of U.S. policy "to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." Also that year, Marshall Plan , was designed to effect the economic reconstruction of Europe. The Point Four Program of Technical was aided to underdeveloped countries in 1949. By the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949.
1950 the McCarran Internal Security Act, which provided for the registration of Communist and Communist-front organizations, was passed over Truman's veto. The same year the Chinese Revolution was followed by the outbreak of the Korean War. U.S. troops were sent to Korea under the aegis of the United Nations. 1952, he seized the steel industry in order to prevent a strike. His reasoning for this was the president's inherent powers in time of emergency, the supreme court overruled him. Harry declined renomination in 1952

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