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US Pres 1932-
Name | Info |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1933-1945 Democrat Great Depression, WWII New Deal, "good neighbor" policy |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 Democrat end of WWII, Korean War founding UN, Fair Deal, NATO, desegregating Armed Forces |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1953-1961 Republican Cold War, U-2 Incident, beginning of Civil Rights Era Interstate Highway System,launched NASA |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 Democrat Civil Rights Era, Space Race, Bay of Pigs Created Peace Corps,Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, "New Frontier" domestic policy |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 Democrat Civil Rights Era, Vietnam War Civil Rights Act of 1964, "Great Society" (Medicare) |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 Republican Vietnam War, Apollo 11 landing, Watergate Scandal Formed EPA,improved Cold War tensions,"New Federalism" domestic policy , Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 Republican Cold War, recession pardoned Nixon, Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II talks, curbed inflation |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 Democrat Energy Crisis, boycotting Moscow Olympics, Iran Hostage Crisis Camp David Accords, Panama Canal Treaties,Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II, |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 Republican recession/inflation, Cold War escalates and ends, crack epidemic, Iran-Contra affair "Reaganomics" (fixed economy), Malta Summit, Reagan Doctrine (anti-communist foreign policy) |
George H.W, Bush | 1989-1993 Republican Fall of Berlin Wall, Persian Gulf War Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, reauthorized Clean Air Act, Immigration Act of 1990 |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 Democrat Rise of internet (dot com bubble), booming economy, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, NAFTA, Telecommunications Act of 1996, Defense of Marriage Act |
George W. Bush | 2001-2009 Republican 9/11, recession, War on Terror (War in Afghanistan, Iraq War) PATRIOT Act, No Child Left Behind |
Barack Obama | 2009- Democrat recession,War in Afghanistan, Iraq War, Death of bin Laden "Obamacare", Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 |