President Franklin D. Roosevelt suffers a fatal stroke while resting at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. In the months prior Roosevelt had met with Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill at the Yalta Conference, and with Egyptian King Farouk, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, and Saudi King Ibn Saud aboard the USS Quincy. His death ascended Harry Truman to the White House, who vowed to take a tougher stance against the Soviet Union.
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