Truman had his hand's full: He just finished with WW2 (1945); just finished with "moving the whole human race into the atomic age" (Hiroshima/Nagasaki Atomic Bombings in 1945); and was then fighting the very first "hot" war with communist nations in Korea (1950-1953). Going on at the same time was the 1st Indochina War, aka the French Indochina War; the French were up against the communist backed Viet Minh...we were tied up in Korea, so Truman supplied the French with old WW2 equipment (propeller driven Hellcats, Bearcats, Corsairs), and WW2 US tanks...M-24 Chaffee light tanks, and WW2 half-tracks, plus small arms and some infantry armor (M-1 steel helmets). Korea ended in '53; the French war ended in '54.
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Adopted the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
one of it is the day when buddha was born.Church people celebrate jesus instead
Let them take the place; they were working on it anyway.
California stayed with the Union side; though there were some Californians who wanted to join the Confederacy instead. There were also significant numbers of people who wanted California to become an independent country.
No military draft (we now have an all volunteer military) and the adult age for US Citizens is 18...instead of age 21. Over 20,000 young men that died in Vietnam were not legal adults.