Today we were given out our next assigned blog: I have Bill Clinton's election.
Harry Truman
-33rd president that served from 1945-1953.
-Ran against Dewey in the 1948 election.
Accomplishments:
-Decision on dropping the atomic bombs on Japan.
-Truman Doctorine: Military aid to Greece and Turkey.
-"Fair Deal" just like the new deal.
-NATO
-The Nuremburg Trials
-Help set up the United Nations
-The Policy of Containment- Overall policy of the Cold War (Stop communism)
-Created the CIA and the National Security Council.
-Got the US involved in Vietnam by giving aid to France.
-Berlin Airlift
-Mcarthyism
-President throughout the Korean War.
Dwight Eisenhower
-34th president from 1953-1961
-Famous US General.
-Health issues during presidency.
-He was a republican.
Accomplishments:
-started the highway and interstate systems.
-NASA was created.
-Promised to end the Korean War.
-Dominated by the Cold War-Containment Policy.
-Allowed McCarthy to do his thing but privately didn't approve.
-Eisenhower Doctorine.
-True believer in the balanced budget.
-Desegregation- The seperation of black and whites.
John F. Kennedy
-35th President from 1961-1963
-Cuban Missle Crisis.
-Cold War Issues dominated Kennedy's presidency.
-Berlin Wall was built.
-Alliance for Progress with Latin America.
-Bay of Pigs invasion.
-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
-The New Frontier:
Promised federal funding for:
1) education
2) medical care for the elderly
Assassination:
-Jackie and Kennedy were heading down to Texas. Why? All about the upcoming election starting and getting the Democrats to get along.
-Shot and killed on Elm Street.
-Lyn Johnson took over.
-Shot by Lee Harvy Oswald.
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