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U.S. Presidents:

(“Decades of Change” & “End of Cold War & Contemporary America")



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Harry Truman - 33rd president

Term of Office: April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1953

Number of Terms Elected: 2 Terms; Succeeded Franklin Roosevelt after his death in 1945 and then

elected to second term

Major Events While in Office:

• Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima

and Nagasaki (1945)

• End of World War II (1945)

• United Nations Created (1945)

• Nuremburg Trials (1945-1946)

• Truman Doctrine (1947)

• Taft-Hartley Act (1947)

• Israel Created (1948)

• Marshall Plan (1948-1952)

• NATO Treaty (1949)

• Korean Conflict (1950-1953)

• Twenty-Second Amendment

Ratified (1951)

• Hydrogen Bomb Detonated (1952)

Dwight Eisenhower – 34th president

Term of Office: January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961

Number of Terms Elected: 2 Terms

Major Events While in Office:

• End of the Korean War (1953)

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Interstate Highway System Created (1956)

• Eisenhower ordered Federal troops to Little

Rock, Arkansas to enforce integration (1957)

• Eisenhower Doctrine (1957)

John F Kennedy – 35th president

Term of Office: January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963

Number of Terms Elected: 1 term; Was assassinated while in office

Major Events While in Office:

• Peace Corps created (1961)

• Bay of Pigs (1961)

• Berlin Wall built (1961)

• Alan Shepard, Jr. became the first

American in space (1961)

• Twenty-Third Amendment was ratified

giving the residents of Wash. D.C.

right to vote in presidential elections (1961)

• Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

Lyndon B Johnson – 36th president

Term of Office: November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969

Major Events While in Office:

• Vietnam Conflict Continues (1963 - 1969)

• Civil Rights Act (1964)

• Twenty-Fourth Amendment ratified

outlawing the poll tax (1964)

• Medicare and Medicaid (1965)

• 25th Amendment ratified concerning order

of succession for presidency (1967)

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated(1968)

• Robert Kennedy assassinated (1968)

Richard Nixon – 37th president

Term of Office: January 20 , 1969 - August 9, 1974

Number of Terms Elected: 2 Terms; Resigned during second term

because of the Watergate cover-up.

Major Events While in Office:

• First man to walk on the moon (1969)

• Environ. Prot, Agency created (1970)

• 26th Amendment (voting age 18)

• Break-in at Watergate occurs (1972)

• SALT Agreement (1972)

• Nixon visits China (1972)

• End of the Vietnam War (1973)

• Vice Pres. Spiro T. Agnew resigns (1973)

• Nixon resign (1974)

Gerald Ford – 38th president

Death: December 26, 2006

Term of Office: August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977

Number of Terms Elected: No Terms; Was never elected to be president

or vice-president but instead took office upon

the resignation first of Spiro Agnew and then

of Richard Nixon

Major Events While in Office:

• Ford grants Nixon an unconditional

pardon (1974)

• Campaign Reform Law (1974)

• Communist victory in Southeast Asia

(Vietnam)(1975-76)

• Helsinki Agreement (1975)

Jimmy Carter – 39th president

Term of Office: January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981

Number of Terms Elected: 1 Term

Major Events While in Office:

• Vietnam War era draft evaders

pardoned (1977)

• Panama Canal Treaty (1977)

• Camp David Accords (1978)

• US officially recognizes People's Republic

of China (1979)

• Three Mile Island incident (1979)

• Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-81)

Ronald Reagan – 40th president

Term of Office: January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989

Number of Terms Elected: 2 Terms

Major Events While in Office:

• Sandra Day O'Connor named first woman

Supreme Court justice (1981)

• Attempted assassination (1981)

• Granada invasion (1983)

• Iran-Contra Scandal (1985-89)

• Glasnost with the Soviet Union (1985-1991)

• Stark incident in Gulf War (1987)

George H W Bush – 41st president

Term of Office: January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993

Number of Terms Elected: 1 Term

Major Events While in Office:

• Invasion of Panama (1989)

• Savings and Loan bail out (1989)

• Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska (1989)

• Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)

• Break up of the Soviet Union (1991)

• Persian Gulf War (1990-91)

Bill Clinton – 42 president

Term of Office: January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001

Number of Terms Elected: 2 Terms

Major Events While in Office:

• NAFTA (1993)

• World Trade Center Terrorist

Bombing (1993)

• Oklahoma City federal building Terrorist

bombing (1995)

• War in former Yugoslavia (1999)

• Impeachment (1999)

George W Bush

Term of Office: January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009

Number of Terms Elected: 2 Terms

Major Events While in Office:

• Contested Election (2000)

• Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in

New York City (September 11, 2001)

• War in Afghanistan (2001)

• War in Iraq (2003)

• No Child Left Behind Act

• Patriot Act

• Economic Crisis (2008)

• Hurricane Katrina (2005)

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