Truman becomes US President
1945 · Event
FDR dies; Truman inherits the presidency in the final months of WW2.
On these timelines: Master, Cold War
Around 1945
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)