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President Harry Truman- 1945-53 (33rd)
- Became Vice President (under Roosevelt) for FDR in Jan, 1945
- Took over for FDR when he died in April, 1945
- One of the most un-popular presidents of all time
- He is more popular today then he was then
- He was born in Missouri
- He was vice for about 2 months then became President in 1945
- Truman vs Dewey vs Stevenson
- Defeated Dewey in the 19?? election
- Truman Doctrine- Supporting Greece & Turkey financially and help with military to prevent there falling into the soviet block
- Decide to use the atomic bomb against Japan
- Had to deal with the transition from wartime economy
- Helped set uo the policy of contanment
- He took both bad and good feedback and took it as all his responsibility
- "The buck stops here" famous quote
The Fair Deal
- Extinsion of FDRs' New Deal of the 1930's
- Aimed to promote economic development and socila welfare
- Faced a lot of opposition from southern democrats and rep.
- Most fair deals propasals did not get passes
- Was the 1st president who really was involved in Vietnam by giving money to France
- Nato was our alliance with Western Europe during the cold war - still around today
- McCarthyism*
- Korean conflict led to his downfall because of the firing of General McCurth*
President Dwight Eisenhower 1953-91 (34th)
- He was a famous General
- Ike vs Adley Stevenson (Ike won..duh)
- Promised to end the Korean war in 1952 ( He did end it )
- Dominated by the cold war contanment policy
- Used CIA to do covert-ops to disrupt communist governments abroad (Iran/Guatamala)
- Opened relations with Spain
- Defensive alliances were signed with S Korea and Taiwan
- SEATO was formed
- Increased US involvement in SEast Asia (Vietnam)-US advisors sent
- Developed idea that nuclear weapons would be defensive weapons
- NASA was created due to soviet sputnik launch (Ike created NASA)
- US spt plane (U-2) was shot down over USSR
- ALlowed McCarthy to do his thing but privatley did not approved
- Eisenhower Doctrine; we would give any money/military protection to any middle eastern country that requested it to stop communist
- He wanted to make sure the governemnt made more money than they spent
- Believed in laissez faire
- Believed in balanced budget ^^
- Deported around 1 million illegal immagrants (mostly mexican)
- Sent federal troops to little rock arkansas to help in the desegregation of all public schools-1954- Brown case
- Helped pass the federal aid highway act
JFK 1961-1963 (35th)
- Served in WW2
- Was a US rep and senator from Massachusets before becoming president
- Married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
- First and only catholic president
- Youngest elected president and 2nd youngest president
- assignated in 1963
- Went to Harvard
- Roman Catholic
- Vs Richard Nixon
- "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what yiu can do for your country."
- Cold war issues dominated kennedys presidency
- Berlin wall was built in 1961 (during presidency)
- Bay of pigs invasion took place in 1961
- Cuban missile crisis
- Alliance for progress with Latin America
- Kennedy increased the number of helicopters, military advisers and undeclared US special forces in the vietnam
- The CIA helped git rid of the governament in Iraq and helped new party come to power
- The new frontier promised federal funding for education, medical care for the older people, economic aid to rural regions and government intervention to halt the recession, and to end racial discrimination
- Peace corps were set up
- Equal pay act of 1963: wage was not be based upon sex
- Moon shot speech: July 1969 we were on the moon
- Nov 22, 1963 JFK was riding in a car with his wife and govenor and he was shot
- Parkland hospital in Dallas was where he went, secret services took his body back to DC
- Lee Harvey Oswald was the shooter. He was in the Marines where he learned to shoot. Eventually he was discharged from the military and he was a communist. He deffected the soviet union. He was married with a child named June. Because he was a communist and lived in the soviet union we were afraid he was a spy so he was put on w watch list here in america. He was involved in the Fair Play for Cuba. He used a rifle to shoot JFK and he carried it in a paper bag. After he shot JFK he ran out, grabbed a coke, ran past the police and goes home in downtown Dallas and grabs his pistol. Eventully while walking around he spots a cop who is coming up on him so he shoots the cop. He runs to a shoe store and the owner calls the cops but eventually he left so the owner followed him into a Texas theatre where he was arrested. He was accused of two murders and an attmept in murder of the govenor. He claimed to be a 'patsy' - set up - Jack Ruby shot Oswald while he was being transfered to the county jail. Ruby says he shot him because he did not want JFKs wife (Jackie) to have to face him in trial. So out of the good of his heart did this for jackie. Ruby died in prison. Ruby was believed to have connections with the Mafia and the police. Johnson put together the Warren Commission to find out who helped out Oswald in the shotting. Earl Warren headed this up.
- Grassy Knoll was where people believed the 2nd gunman came from. It was only heard, never seen. Maybe was an echo
- The 3 trams were arrested in a railroad area and were arrested for being involved in the shooting but were later released. They were thought of as hobos.
- JFK act (watch the movie!) Congress passed the president JFK assassination records collection act of 92. Mandating the gathering and openings of all records concerned with the death of president JFK
Lyndon Johnson 1963-69 (36th)
- Put together the Warren Commission to investigate the JFK assassination
- Passed civil rights act of 1964 wich out lawed most forms of racial segregation
- Passed voting right act 1965 which outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the 1st time
- Started affirmative action laws
- Passed immigration act of 1965 which allowed more non-eruopean people to immigrate the US immigration more than doubled between 1965-1970
The Great Society
- Johnsons plan to aid education, atack disease, medicare and medicaid, urban renewal, neatuification, conservation, development of depressedd regions, war on poverty, control and prevention of crime, removal of obasacles to the right to vote
- Elementary and secondary education act of 1965- large amounts of federal money went to public schools and all the focus was on poor school
- Higher education act of 1965 focused on funding low income students including grants work srudy money ect.
- Gun control act of 1968 regulates the firearms industry and firearms owners passed in response to the assassinations of JFK, RFK, & MLK
Richard Nixon 1969-74 (37th)
- Vice president of Ike
- Lost 1960 election to JFK
- The only person to be elected twice to both the presidency and the vice presidency
- Only presidency to resign from office
- 1972 election against George McGovern rigged by Nixon.
- Ran against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace
Accomplishments:
- National Enviroment Policy Act
- Clean air Act
- War on drugs 1971
- Saw large scale integration of schools in the siuth
- Supported affirmative action
- Signed title IX (1972) prohibiting gender discrimination in all federally funded schools
- Equal enployment opportunity act enforced laws against workplace discrimination
- Abortion was legalized during Nixons presidency
- US astronauts landed in the moon
- SALT1 was signed limiting nuclear weapons
- This led to a new era of peaceful co ecistence\
Watergate
- 5 men were caught breaking into democratic party head quartersat the watergate hotel in washingtin dc on june 17, 1972 to find dirt in the democratic party
- He tried to cover this up
- FBI eventually confirmed that Nixon aides had attempted to sabotage the democrats many began resigning and faced prosecution
President Gerlad Ford 19974-77 (38)
- Real name is Lesley Lynchking
- 1st person to never be elected as vice president or president
- He became president when nixon dies
- Had two assassination attempts by women.
- The biggest reason he didnt win the election is because people thought nixon should be in prison
- He felt that nobody should see the president in jail
- Inflationwas a huge deal in the 70's
- Inflation is when the price of a dollar goes down and prices go up
- Nixon called himself the law and order president when he himself is a crime commiting president
- In watergade burglers broke into the motel bussiness complex and nixon is suspected of ordering it and covering it up because the people that did it were nixons friends
- there are tons of rumors about nixon and him braking the law in many ways
- Ford helped kids in school a lot by creating the special ed. classes in schools to help those with disabilities
- We pulled outnof viet nam in 1973 when nixon was still president
- He ran against Jimmy Carter (democrat)
- Election day : Nov 2nd
- Carter took 23 states
- Ford took 27 states
- He lost this election most likely because he pardoned nixon
- ford wanted to help southern vietnam but congress said theres no way
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