Upcoming assigned blog George Herbert Walker Bush
Elections, info on it. wars we were in
Harry Truman 33rd president
- Became president after jfk was assasinated
- one of the most unpopular presidents of all time 22% aproval
- poilicy of containment, marshall plan, truman doctrine
- created the cia
- Organized and join United nations
- transition from wartime economy to peacetime economy becaue he was pres. right after ww2
- Got US involved in Vietnam by giving aid to France
Dwight Eisenhower 34th president
- Famous WW2 general
- Republican
- Richard Nixon was his vp
- defeated adlini stevenson in both of his elections
- theory that if russia knew we had nuclear weapons and would use them if they attacked us, made russia would not attack us
- responsible with us budget and credit
- built interstate system
John F. Kennedy 35th president 1961-1963
- First and only catholic president
- Youngest elected president and 2nd youngest to ever take office
- Defeated Richard Nixon by getting the young people involved
- helped with social security, minimum wage
- Berlin wall built in 1961
- next step into vietnam- green baretts
- new frontier- promised education, medical care, economic aid
- to get a man to the moon
Assassination
- Assassinated in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald
- With wife and Govenor of Texas in a limosine
- Oswald died several days later when he was shot trasporting prisons by Jack Ruby
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