Key Figures of World War II
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5. Harry Truman
Harry Truman became American president in the spring of 1945, shortly before the war in Europe ended . In August of the same year Truman decided to use the atomic bomb to end the war against Japan.
Harry Truman
Image: National Archives and Records Administration. Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S. Truman Library.,
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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