presidents modern america presentation

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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.

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