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AP US History- as a result of class today you
A) should be able to list the presidents in order from Truman through Obama
B) should be able to identify the achievements and challenges faced by each
President
The PresidentsOverview
Truman- ObamaAchievements and Challenges
TrumanVP for Fdr
The bomb
Truman doctrine
Integration of military
Korean war - MacArthur
Eisenhower
Great economic prosperity
Nixon
Cold War
Vietnam
Sputnik
Suburbanization
Just so you know:Exam
1490-1789 20%1790-1914 45%
1915-to present 35%
Kennedy"ask not what your country can do for you... Ask what you can do for your country"
Bay of Pigs
Peace Corps
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam
Assassinated- Oswald
LBJohnson
The Great Society
The War on Poverty
Vietnam
Civil Rights
Crushed republican Goldwater in '64 but decided not
To run for re-election in 1968
Nixon
Vietnam
China
Inflation
Nixon doctrine
Watergate
Ford
"Our long national nightmare has ended"
Only President
Carter
Tough economic
"malaise"
Iran hostage
R.Reagan
Conservative
Russia - Gorbachev
Assassination attempt
"Star Wars"
Iran -contra
Huge increase in military
Spending
GHWBush (41)
Bush 41
First Persian Gulf War
"no new taxes"
Clinton
Great economic prosperity
Tried health care
Impeached
GW Bush
September 11, 2001
Afghanistan
Iraq
Economic Crisis
Obama
First
Economic recovery
Health Care
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