Name this President:
I’m a Democrat from Missouri and FDR’s Vice President who became President upon FDR’s death. I served as President from 1945 to 1953
I was an artilleryman in WW I and rose to the rank of Captain.
I was President when Germany surrendered on May 7 and Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945.
I Authorized the use of two atomic bombs against Japan, one on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and one on Nagasaki (August 9, 1945).
I instituted the Marshall Plan and the doctrine of “Containment” – a strategy to contain the expansion of the USSR without a U.S.-Soviet war.
My second inauguration was the first to be nationally televised.
I committed U.S. troops to South Korea’s defense in what became the Korean War.
I was the last President to be eligible for more than 2 terms, but I declined to run for a third term.