"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." Harry Truman used the middle initial S. as the family could not agree on whether his middle name should be Shippe or Solomon. After attending public school, working as a railroad timekeeper, a bank clerk and running the family farm, Truman attended law school and was elected US Senator in 1934. With Roosevelt's help Truman was nominated for and elected Democratic vice president in 1944. He became the 33rd President of the USA when Roosevelt died in 1945 and was elected to a full term in 1948. Truman was responsible for bringing World War II to an end by authorizing the first use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 8) 1945. In 1948-49 he crushed the Russian blockade of West Berlin with a giant airlift and send American forces to Korea in 1950 when communist North Korea invaded South Korea.
