I have the Iraq war(2003) for the next blog post
President Harry Truman- Marshall plan helped rebuild the economy. United Nations. passed the 22nd ammendment which was you could not serve more than 2 terms. no more than 10 years. decided to drop the atomic bomb. one of the most unpopular president of all time. took over president after FDR died. president when WWII ended Postam Comference- Germany consequence. japan we have a new weapon so you should surender now or face mass destruction. decided to use the atomic bomb against japan. desegregation of the US military. took a hard-line stance against communism and the soviet union-policy of containment. helped organize and later join the united nations. truman doctrine and marchall plan were passed. created th eCIA and the national security council.He came into office after FDR died. He came into office just before the WWII ended. Truman was re-elected in 1948. He ran up against Dewey. Everyone thought Dewey was going to win, but Truman actually won the election. He knew nothing about the Manhatton Project. He passed the Fair Deal, you can compare it to FDR's New Deal. He strongly supported civil rights (for blacks). Segregation was in play. He supported them. He de-segregated the US military. He created the Truman doctrine which was to stop communism, gave money to Grease and Turkey. Truman fired General MacArthur. People hated him for that. Very unpopular when he left office. There was an assasination.. He passed the Marshall Plan and it helped the economy greatly. Truman was president when the United Nation was in play. Passed the 22rd ammendment, which was only a president could serve no more than 2 terms. No more than 10 years. President that ended WWII. Dropped the A bomb on Japan. He did not want communism to spread so we contained it. He created the CIA and the National Security Council. He got the people involved in the Vietnam War, wanted to help France.
The fair deal-simiar to the new deal aimed to help poor people. faced a lot of opposition from southern democrats and republicans. most fair deal proposals did not get passed. civil rights housing social security minimum wage health labor eduaction and agriculture.reconized israel as a homeplace for the jewish people. got the US involved in Vietnam by giving aid to france. berlin airlift. chinese civil war ends, mccarthyism
President Dwight Eisenhower- he was the 34th president. He was the first president to be on color tv and rule all 50 states. Ended the korean war. Created NASA. He delt alot with the Cold War. He was the commander during D-day. We didnt go to nuclear war. He kept the US out of war with the soviet union. He won pretty easy. He was thought to have an affair with his driver while he was in the army. People trusted him he was a hero. he decide to join the republican party. Richard Nixon was vice president. he was diagnosed with crohn's disease and had a stroke. SEATo was formed. also used the CIA to do covet-ops to dispurt communisum. opened relations with spain. ended the korean conflict as promised in his 1952 election campaign. defensive alliances were signed with south korea and taiwan. SEATO was formed. south east asian treaty organization. Increased US involvment in Southeast Asia(VIetnam) US advisors sent. Developed idea the nuclear weapons would be defensive weapons(deferrence). NASA created due to Soviet Sputnik launch., US spy plane (U-2) was shot down over USSR. Allowed McCarthy to do his thing but privately did not approve. McCarthy went after communisum. Believed in laissez-faire believed in a balanced budget. Deported around 1 million illegal immigrants(mostly Mexicans). sent federal troops to Little Rock Arkansas to help in the desegregation of all public schoolls 1954 brown case.helped pass the federal aid highwayh act of 1956 which created the US international highway.
Eisenhower Doctrine- we will help middle eastern countries that need help with communism money and military aid.
John F. Kenndey-Served in WWII Was a Us Representative and Senator from Massachusetts before becoming president. Married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier First and only Catholic President. Youngest elected president and second youngest president. Assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. 1960 ran against vice-president Richard Nixon first presidential televised debates took place. Many say this helped JFK win the election. Cold War Issues dominated Kennedy's presidency. Berlin Wall was built in 1961.Bay of Pigs invasion 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis. Alliance for progress with latin america 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 elitle killing in which saddam hussein himself is said to have participated. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963
The New Frontier-promised federal funding for- education medical care for the elderly economic aid to rural regions and government intervention to halt the recession end racial education.
Peace Corp was established in 1961 where americans volunteer to help undeveloped nations
Equal Pay Act- a federal law aimed to abolish wage. men and women get paid equal.
Lee Harvey Oswald was in the military and was a shot shooter.
Lyndon B. Johnson-JFK's vice president. took over as president after JFK was assasinated. He was from texas and JFK didnt like him. It was a blow out he had 61.1% of the popular vote. campaign commcials were daisy girl and Ice Cream they helped them win. He used scary tastics. Put together the Warren Commision to investigate the JFK assassination. Passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed mosty forms of racial segregation. Passed Voting Rights Act which outlawed discrimination in voting thuis allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time. started affirmative action laws. Passed Immigration Act which allowed more non european people to immigrate to US immigration more tham doubled between 1965-1970
The Great Society- aid educatuion attack disease Medicare and Medicaid urban renewal beautification conservation development of depressed regions war on poverty control and prevention of crime removal of obatacles to the right to vote.
Richard NIxon-Vice President of Eisenhower, lost 1960 election to JFK. The only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the VP. Only president to resign from office. The first green president
Accomplishments- Vietnam conflict dominated his presidency. Promised to end the war. Expanded the war to cambodia and Laos bombing HO Chi Minh trail. Started pulling troops out of Vietnam like he promised. The Nixon Doctrine: Vietnamization of the war. Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973 stoped the fighting and got the US out of the war. Nixon was a environmental president. Passed a lot of acts to support african americans.War on drugs. supplemental security income provided money to low-income people who either aged blind or disabled. Saw large scale integration of schools in the south. Abortion was legalized. US astronauts landed on the moon1969 Nixon approved the development of NASA's Space Shuttle program. IN 1972 President NIxon traveled to China where the president was to have direct talks with Mao Zedong and Chou En-Iai this eases relations with the US and China and China( not Taiwan) was recognized as the official China. Went to Moscow in 1972 SALT 1 was signed limiting nuclear weapons. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed which banned the developnment of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles. This led to a new era of peaceful co-existence and detente with the USSR. Supported Israel in the Uom Kippur War where Israel was attacked bt Egypt and Syria this support of Israel led to the 1973 oil crisis where OPEC countries didnt trade oil with the US as a result Mixon lowered maximum US speed limit to 55 miles per hour to conserve gasoline during the crisis,
Watergate- 5 men were caught breaking into Democratic party headquater at the watergate hotel in washington dc on june 17 to find dirt on the democratic party. two washington post reports carl bernstein and bob woodward investigated the story. Woodward and bernstein relied on an FBI informant known as Deep Throat to link the men to the Nixon White House follow the money. This became one of a series of scandalous acts involving the committee to re elect the president Nixon downplayed the scandal and denounced the story as biased and misleading FBI eventually confirmed that Nixon aides had attempted to sabotage the Democrats many began resigning and faced prosecution NIxon was involved by trying to cover up the break in and eventually resigned from the presidency.
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