List of International Trips Made By The President of The United States - President Harry S Truman

President Harry S Truman

After FDR died, Truman attended the Potsdam conference 9 weeks after Germany's unconditional surrender. Nineteen months later he went on state visits in Canada, Mexico and Brazil all within a 6 month period. For the next five years he did not go abroad.

Table of Trips
# Start End Country Cities Reason
1 15-Jul-1945 15-Jul-1945 Belgium Antwerp, Brussels Disembarked en route to Potsdam.
2 16-Jul-1945 2-Aug-1945 Germany Potsdam Potsdam Conference with British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
3 2-Aug-1945 2-Aug-1945 United Kingdom Plymouth Informal meeting with King George VI.
4 3-Mar-1947 6-Mar-1947 Mexico Mexico, D.F. State visit; met with President Miguel Alemán Valdés.
5 10-Jun-1947 12-Jun-1947 Canada Ottawa Official visit; met with Governor General Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
6 1-Sep-1947 7-Sep-1947 Brazil Rio de Janeiro State visit; addressed Rio de Janeiro Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security and the Brazilian Congress.

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