Harry Truman
-From Missouri
-Went to Independence HS
-last president that did not go to college
-girlfriend that he proposed to turned him down because he wasn't making enough money but then when he started making more she changed her mind
-he was VP for one month before he became president.
-He was expected to lose his 194 election
-became VB for FDR
-Took over for FDR when he died in April, 1945
-one of the most unpopular presidents of all time. he only had 22% approval rating when he left office. (it was a tought time with wars and stuff - decided to use the bombs.)
-rating has approved over the years.
-luckily the great depression didnt' set in.
-he had to deal with the transition of the soldiers coming home and finding jobs, which meant the emplyment rate was going up
-desegregated the US military
-created the CIA - Central Intelligece Agency (started wire tapping phones. weren't happy with it. helped set up things for governments that were communists leadings, did some assinations to communist leader things. faking elections to make sure the Democrat person won)
-"the buck stops here" means that he takes responsibility for actions because he views that if something goes wrong, he was the one that put them into the situation.
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961
Dwight Eisenhower
- Background
- 34th President of the US (Republican)
- In Office: 1953-1961
- Was a famous WWII general
- Joined Republican Party after WWII, which pretty much guarenteed him the win in the 1952 election
- Richard Nixon was his VP
- Diagnosed with Crohn's Disease and had a minor stroke while president
- One of the oldest, if not the oldest president elected into office
- Election
- Ran against Adlai Stevenson- 1952
- Didn't start out as Republican or Democratic, but ended up being Republican
- Aimed his campaigning towards women
- He won 55.2% of the popular vote
- He was a very popular president because of his time in WWII
- In 1956 Election, he defeated Stevenson once again
- Accomplishments
- General in WWII
- He won 2 elections
- Continued New Deal Programs from FDR
- One of the older presidents
- He is known for setting up the interstate system
- He came up with the idea of deturrance (having nuclear weapons and saying we're going to use them in war, means that we won't go into a nuclear war)
- 1954 saw the very famous the Brown v. Board of Education that said that segregation was no longer allowed. He worked for desegregation.
- Dominated by the Cold War- Containment Policy
- Eisenhower Doctrine- US would give money and military aid to middle eastern countries to fight off Communists
- Ended the Korean War as promised in his election
- Increased US involvement in Southeast Asia (Vietnam)- US advisors sent
- NASA was created due to the Soviet Sputnik launch
- US spy plane (U-2) was shot down over USSR
- Deported around 1 million illegal immigrants (mostly Mexicans
- Allowed McCarthy to do his thing but privately did not approve
John F. Kennedy
- Background
- 1st and only Catholic President
- One of the youngest presidents elected
- Served in WWII
- Married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
- Assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, TX by Lee Harvey Oswald
- Election
- 1960 Election he went up against Nixon, who had been VP
- Kennedy went to the swing states and bigger states for the electoral college
- Kennedy was a Democrat, and there were many more Democratic votes that year
- Got young people's interests, young people's votes
- Young people loved Kennedy
- 1st presidential televised debates took place
- Won 49.7% of popular vote, Nixon won 49.6% of popular vote so it was very close
- Accomplishments
- Bay of Pigs Invasion- 1961
- Cold War Issues dominated Kennedy's presidency
- Berlin Wall was built in 1961
- Cuban Missle Crisis
- Kennedy increased the number of helicopters, military advisors and undeclared US Special Forces in the Vietnam
- The CIA helped the new Ba'ath Party government overthrow Communists in Iraq. This new party systematically murdered large numbers of Iraq's educated elite- killings in which Saddam Hussein himself is said to have belonged.
- The New Frontier:promised funding for: education, medical care for the elderly, economic aid to rural regions and government intervention to halt the recession, end racial desgression
- Peace Corps
- Moonshot Speech
- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
- Assassination
- Friday November 22, 1963
With his wife and governor of Texas
In presidential limousine
Announced dead around 1 pm
Lee Harvey Oswald was found guilty after a ten month investigation
He was being transported to another prison when he was shot by Jack Ruby on live television
Last president to be assassinated
When he got to the hospital, they said he had no chance of survival
- Performed an autopsy
- Zapruder Film: Only one man got footage of Kennedy's Assassination
- Kennedy was pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital
- Lyndon Johnson was sworn into presidency on Air Force 1 just after Kennedy was announced dead
- Lee Harvey Oswald- the assassin
- Joined the marines and was a sharp shooter
- He was a Communist
- Was discharged from the marines and became a citizen of the USSR
- Married Marina and had a baby named June
- Moved back to the US, and got involved in Fair Play for Cuba
- Moved to Texas and worked at the Texas School Book Depository
- Shot Kennedy from the 6th floor of this building (Sniper's Nest)
- Oswald leaves building nonchalantly and police let him go
- Goes to his apartment, gets his handgun. JD Tippet stopped Oswald and Oswald shot and killed JD Tippet
- Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theatre
- Jack Ruby killed Oswald when Oswald was being transported to a jail\
- Jack Ruby was a strip club owner in Dallas, he was also said to have Mafia ties
- Magic bullet - hit both guys.
- The three tramps(homeless) - arrested after wards for being in the area and acting kind of strange.
- Was Nixon involved? unlikley
- Lee Harvey Oswoldt killed him.
- Vice President maybe? or military
- Mafia? they organized crime.
Lyndon Baynes Johnson - LBJ! 36th 1963-1969
-JFK's VP
Election
-Took over as president after JFK was assasinated
-had most of the popular votes in 1964 election
-ran against Berry Goldwater
Issues:
Richard Nixon - 37th - 1969-1974
-graduated 3rd in his class of 300
-got a scholarship to harvard but turned it down
-served in WW11 and worked for the Office of Price Administration
-ony person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice President
-only president to resign from office
Accomplishments
-started environmental programs
-Environmental Protection Agency
-Clean air act
-ocean dumping act
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