President Blog Discussion:
Jimmy Carter:
- only US president to have received the Nobel Peace prize after leaving office.
- had been a peanut farmer and governor or Georgia before being President.
- strongly emphasized human rights as President.
- has been a very active former President.
- he was a one term president.
- not a popular president.
- known as the green president because he passed a lot of acts for the environment.
Ronald Reagan:
- was a radio broadcaster in Iowa.
- was an actor.
- governor of California.
- was in military service.
- very popular president.
- survived an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. supported anti-communist movements worldwide.
- opposed to detente.
- ordered a massive military buildup in an arms race with the USSR.
- we had close ties with our allies and the USSR didn't.
- China started siding with us after 1972.
- the soviet economy was in shambles whereas US's was flourishing.
- brought the Cold war to an end.
- Reaganomics-what republicans believe in today.
Soviet Mistakes:
- invasion of Afghanistan.
- ignoring social concerns.
- spent everything on military.
George H.W. Bush:
- served as a vice president of the United States under Reagan.
- was a congressman from Texas.
- Was Ambassador of the US to the United Nations.
- Director of the CIA.
- currently the oldest surviving former president.
- Iraq invaded Kuwait because they felt like they were stealing their oil.
- Coalition force victory, Iraq withdraw from Kuwait, destruction of Iraq/Kuwait infrastructure.
George W. Bush:
- his father was the 41st president of the US. Governor of Texas 1995-2000.
- went to Yale and Harvard.
- in the oil business.
- Co-Owner of the Texas Rangers 1989-1994.
- bush tax cuts-passed after US government had three straight year of budget surplus.
- no child left behind-aimed to measure and close the gap between rich and poor student performance.
- provide options to parents with students in low-performing school. target more federal funding to low income people.
9-11-2001
- 4 planes were hijacked and were flown into the building.
- after that the buildings collapsed to the ground.
- airports became a whole lot more stricter on the security.
War in Iraq-
- because they claimed that they have weapons of mass destruction (nuclear or chemical weapons.
- more than 20 nations join the US and invade Iraq we defeated them very quickly.
- Hanged by the people of Iraq not the US.
Barack Obama-
- has been an author of several book.
- was a US senator-2005-2008.
- has been the 44th president of the United States since 2009.
- ended war in Iraq in 2010. ending war in Afghanistan in 2014.
- killed Osama Bin Laden. ended don't ask, don't tell.
- supporting gay marriage.
- stricter on gun control.
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