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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