who was the president of the united states during ww2?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 Three months after ascending to the presidency , he made his only trans @-@ Atlantic trip as president to participate in the Potsdam Conference with British Prime Ministers Churchill and Attlee and Soviet Premier Stalin to discuss how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany . 

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 The war remained a frustrating stalemate for two years , with over 30 @,@ 000 Americans killed , until an armistice ended the fighting in 1953 . In February 1952 , Truman 's approval mark stood at 22 % according to Gallup polls , which was , until George W. Bush in 2008 , the all @-@ time lowest approval mark for an active American president . 

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 The president was faced with the reawakening of labor @-@ management conflicts that had lain dormant during the war years , severe shortages in housing and consumer products , and widespread dissatisfaction with inflation , which at one point hit 6 % in a single month . Added to this polarized environment was a wave of destabilizing strikes in major industries . Truman 's response to them was generally seen as ineffective . A rapid increase in costs was fueled by the release of price controls on most items , and labor sought wage increases . A serious steel strike in January 1946 involving 800 @,@ 000 workers — the largest in the nation 's history — was followed by a coal strike in April and a rail strike in May . The public was angry , with a majority in polls favoring a ban on strikes by public service workers and a year 's moratorium on labor actions . Truman proposed legislation to draft striking workers into the Armed Forces , and in a dramatic personal appearance before Congress , was able to announce settlement of the rail strike . His proposal passed the House of Representatives , but failed in the Senate . For commodities where price controls remained , producers were often unwilling to sell at artificially low prices : farmers refused to sell grain for months in 1945 and 1946 until payments were significantly increased , even though grain was desperately needed , not only for domestic use , but to stave off starvation in Europe . 

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 President Truman must be impeached and convicted . His hasty and vindictive removal of General MacArthur is the culmination of series of acts which have shown that he is unfit , morally and mentally , for his high office . The American nation has never been in greater danger . It is led by a fool who is surrounded by knaves . 

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 Several changes in leadership occurred during this period . On 12 April , President Roosevelt died and was succeeded by Harry Truman . Benito Mussolini was killed by Italian partisans on 28 April . Two days later , Hitler committed suicide , and was succeeded by Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz . 
