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FDR Lies in State
Franklin Roosevelt's flag-covered coffin, surrounded by flowers, sits in the East Room of the White House. His White House funeral was held on April 14, 1945.
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Marshall Plan
Workers are busy at a construction site in Berlin, Germany, financed with American money supplied by the Marshall Plan. Between 1948 and 1951, the Marshall Plan funneled $13 billion into European recovery.
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MacArthur and Hirohito
Here with General Douglas C. MacArthur is Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who overruled his own generals in order to end World War II. The picture was taken at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo in 1945.
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"A Man was Lynched Yesterday"
Lynchings of blacks were common occurrences in the South. Here a city banner proclaims a recent lynching.
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Jackie Robinson
Here is twenty-six-year-old Jackie Robinson as he looked when Branch Rickey hired him. He is wearing the cap of the Montreal Royals, the Dodger's minor league affiliate. The following year, 1947, he would play shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Harry Truman and Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill and Harry Truman travel to Westminster College in Truman's home state of Missouri, where Churchill will astound audiences with his reference to the Soviet Union's "iron curtain."
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Truman Doctrine
Even before the Marshall Plan, President Harry Truman asked for American aid to European nations of strategic importance. Here he signs a declaration granting $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey. It is May 22, 1947. The declaration will become known as The Truman Doctrine, an effort to fight the spread of Communism abroad.
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Harry S. Truman Campaigning
Here is Harry Truman campaigning for president in 1948 in Washington, D.C.
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1948 Whistlestop
Harry Truman greets his public at one of his many whistle-stop gatherings on his 1948 campaign trail.
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