Transcript Recent Presidents - Marblehead High School

Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
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Rough Rider
Conservation
Big Stick
Square Deal
Progressives /
Muckrakers
• Panama
• Treaty of Portsmouth
William Taft 1909-1913
• TR’s Successor
• Dollar Diplomacy
• Surprisingly
Conservative
• Height of Immigration
Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921
• “Bull Moose” Election
• Surprisingly Progressive
• Interventionism in
Caribbean
• Mexico
• Bank and trust reform
• Height of Lynching / Riots
• WWI / Treaty of Versailles
• Income Tax, Direct
Election of Senators,
Suffrage, Prohibition
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
1921-1933
• “a return to normalcy”
• “the business of America is
business”
• The “roaring 20s”
• Great Migration, Harlem
Renaissance
• Consumer Economy /
speculative buying
• Perceived wealth v. reality
• Isolationism
• Prohibition / Organized Crime
• 1929 Crash Start of
Depression
• Trickle Down Economics
Franklin Roosevelt 1933-1945
• Height of Great Depression
• Brains Trust
• New Deal
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Bank Holiday
Alphabet Agencies
Social Security
Fireside Chats
• Arsenal of Democracy /
Lend Lease
• WWII
• “the only thing we have to
fear, is fear itself
Truman 1945-1953
• End of WWII
• Start of Cold War / NATO
• Truman Doctrine and
Marshall Plan
• Containment
• Korean War –
Desegregation of Military
• Maintaining New Deal
Programs
• Taft Hartley Act
• “the buck stops here”
Eisenhower (1953-1961)
• General – WWII D-Day
• Start of Arms Race
• Interstate Highway
system
• Guatemala Interventions
• Start of Vietnam
• Brown v. Board of Ed.
• Federal De-Segregation
• New Youth Culture
• Quote: “beware the rise
of the military industrial
complex”
Kennedy (1961-1963)
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only Catholic Prez
Television
Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Expansion of Vietnam
Camelot image, Space
program, Peace Corps
• “ask not what your
country can do for you,
but what you can do for
your country”
Johnson (1963-1969)
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Escalation of Vietnam
Anti War / Anti Government
Great Society
Civil Rights Bills
Hippies / Counterculture
“I’m not going to send
American boys over to do
what Asian boys should be
doing for themselves”
Nixon (1969-1974)
• Expansion / End of
Vietnam
• Détente
• Relations with China
• Watergate
• Man on the moon
• Institutes some Great
Society
• Race Riots
• Roe v. Wade
• “you won’t have Richard
Nixon to kick around
anymore”
Ford (1974-1977)
• Endgame of Vietnam
• Oil Problems / OPEC
• Challenge to US
industry
• Inflation / Stagflation
Carter (1977-1981)
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Governor of Georgia
Camp David Accords
Oil Crisis
Iran Hostage Crisis
Soviet Invasion of
Afghanistan
• Inflation /
Unemployment
• 3 Mile Island
• Disco
Reagan (1981-1989)
Cold War Re-intensification
“Reaganomics”
De-regulation
Iran Contra Scandal
Libya Issues
Grenada
“it’s morning in America”
“the Soviet Union is an evil
empire”
Bush (late 80s early 90s)
• Before Prez
– Ambassador, CIA director, VP
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For Policy as Prez
– Panama, Gulf War, Early Somalia
• Dom Policy as Pres
– Continue Reagan era Deregulation
– Recession that he refuses to name
• Quote: “Read my lips, no new
taxes”
Clinton (90s)
• Before Prez
1. Governor of AR
• As Prez
– Whitewater Scandal
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Real Estate Deal
Special Prosecuter
Lewinsky
Impeachment
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Tech Boom, Stock Market Boom
Waco, Oklahoma City
Somalia, Kosovo
1st WTC Bombing, Kenya/ Tanzania Embassy Bombings, USS Cole
C. Quote: “It’s the economy, stupid!”
Bush II (2001-2009)
• Before Prez
– Oil Business, Baseball
Business,Governor of TX
– “Compassionate Conservative”
• As Prez
– Influenced by old “neocons”
– 9/11
– Afghanistan / Iraq Wars
– Return to Reagan style Tax Cuts / DeRegulation
– Hurricane Katrina
– Great Recession of 2008
• Quote ; “N. Korea, Iran, and Iraq
constitute an axis of evil”
Obama (2009 •
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Before President:
– Community organizer, Senator (IL), 2004
convention
As President
– Great Recession of 2008
• The Jobless Recovery
– Health Care Law (Obamacare)
– End of Iraq / Afghanistan Wars
– Benghazi Attack
– MidEast Revolutions … $4 gas
Quote – “If you like the
health insurance you have
now, you can keep it.”