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Presidents and Major events in
Modern America
What do you want to study for the rest of theyear?
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Harry Truman(D) 1945-1952
Integrated the military by executive decision Korean War
Fired General MacArthur.
Rebuilt Europe: Marshall Plan
Kept the New Deal Policies of FDR alive
Led the United States into its era of greatest wealth.
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Dwight Eisenhower(R) 1953-1960
Built the Interstate
Highways.
40% of Americans
move to suburbs, 30%live on farms, 30% in
the inner city
Sent military to protect
Little Rock Nine.
SPACE RACE
Sends advisors
to Vietnam
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JFK(D)(1960-1963)
John F Kennedy: First Catholic to be electedPresident.
Youngest president elected. (Teddy Roosevelt was42)
Peace Corps. (Ask not what your country can do foryou, but what you can do for your country)
Cuban Missile Crisis.
16, 000+ troops in Vietnam
Assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.
President during MAJOR SHIFT IN AMERICA: YOUTHCULTURE!
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JFK Assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald shot in jail by
Jack Ruby.
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Lyndon B Johnson(D) (1963-1968)
Civil Rights Acts of 1964.
Great Society(War vs
Poverty, Medicare,
Medicaid, Government
Housing, Food Assistance)
Vietnam War officially
begins 1964.
1968: Robert Kennedy
Killed, Martin Luther King
Killed. LBJ does not run for
reelection
President During
COUNTERCULTURE In USA
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Counter Culture
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Vietnam
Vietnam War
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Richard Nixon(R)(1968-1974) Normalizes relationship with China.
Cease fire with Vietnam (1973) 1964-1973 2.6 million Americans
went to Vietnam. 55, 894 dead.
Watergate: Nixon advisors caught breaking into Democrat
headquarters. Tapes reveal that Nixon ordered it, forced to
resign.
Only President in the History of the US to resign from office.
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Gerald Ford(R)1974-1976
Finished Nixons Term
First time since Eisenhower that no American
Troops are involved in active warfare.
Roe V Wade abortion legalized throughout
USA.
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Jimmy Carter(D) 1977-1981
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Push for Clean Energy
President during major economic recession, Oilshortages.
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Ronald Reagan (R) 1981-1987 Tax cuts. Believed in Trickle
down economics.
Shot, but survived.
Made a nuclear treaty with
USSR.
Increased military spending,
Russia couldnt keep up,
communist economy failed. AIDS epidemic ignored.
Drug War. multiple
interventions in Latin
America.
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George Bush (R) 1988-1992
Just Say NoTo drugs
First Iraq war
Read my lips, No new Taxes
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William Jefferson Clinton(D)(1993-
2001)
World Trade Center bombed,
War with Kosovo
Black Hawk Down
Internet goes Mainstream
NAFTA (North American Free
Trade Agreement)
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George W Bush (R) 2001-2008
September 11
Tax cuts, Education
Reform
War with Afghanistan
War with Iraq
Collapse of AmericanEconomy
Saved millions of AIDS
victims with foreign aid
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Barack Obama (D)(2008- )
First African American President.
In the process of ending Iraq and Afghanistan
wars.
Health Insurance Reform
Had Osama Bin Laden Assassinated.
Power of presidency centralized like neverbefore.