US Foreign Policy 1945-72

US Foreign Policy 1945-72

1. End of WW2 1945

   • Harry S Truman is President after Roosevelt
     • post war conference - Truman, Stalin & Clement Attlee (GB) meet
       • Japan refuse to surrender. 6 August Truman drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 3 days later Nagasaki bombed
         • 140,000 dead
         • 130,000 die over next 5 years (radiation)
         • August 10 Japan surrender
         • Thousands of ameican lives saved
         • Atomic Age
           • 1945 -Us on top of power
           • 1949 - Soviet Russia make its own
   • Fall of Nazi Germany
   • Japan war in Far East continued