American Presidents from 1945-1992 A Mr. Stacey Production

American Presidents from 1945-1992 POLICIES and ASSOCIATIONS Truman, Harry “Sons of bitches” 33rd President (1945-1953) DEMOCRAT Eisenhower, Dwight “Ike” 34th President (1953-1961) REPUBLICAN Kennedy, John First Roman Catholic President, Youngest President 35th President (1960 – Nov. 22, 1963) VP for FDR, orders dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima (Aug 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (Aug 9, 1945). Established policy of containment (Truman Doctrine) supports Marshall Plan, orders Berlin Airlift, signs NATO, contains communism in Korean War. Ended McCarthyism, made progress with Civil Rights in racial conflicts. Negotiated peace in Korean War, intro’s the Eisenhower Doctrine (1957 ) after Suez Crisis, Sputnik (1957) and U2 incident (1960), Enforces de-segregation during Little Rock Crisis. Bay of Pigs fiasco (1961), Berlin wall (1961), Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), Hotline and Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963), Civil Rights protests/ demonstrations, Marches led by Martin Luther King (1962), Assassination of Kennedy (1963).

American Presidents from 1945-1992 POLICIES and ASSOCIATIONS Johnson, Lyndon VP for Kennedy 36th President (1963-1968) DEMOCRAT “Texan!” Nixon, Richard “Dick” 37th President (1969-1974) REPUBLICAN Ford, Gerald 38th President (1974-1976) Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964) - USA into Vietnam, “Great Society” (1965), Space Race - Domestic Reforms (1965 Voting Rights Act gave blacks right to vote), Pres. When Nobel Prize given to Martin Luther King (1965), and assassination of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy (1968). US on the moon (1969), extricated US from Vietnam (1973) “Vietnamization”, reopened doors to China (by a visit in 1972), President when Communist China accepted into the U.N. vs. Taiwan. SALT I Treaty, involved in Watergate Scandal  forced to resign! Fully Pardoned Nixon, (1975) Signed the Helsinki Accords (example of détente).

American Presidents from 1945-1992 POLICIES and ASSOCIATIONS PRESIDENT Carter, Jimmy (Peanut Farmer) 39th President (1977-1981) DEMOCRAT Reagan, Ronald Actor – R.I.P.! 40th President (1981-1988) REPUBLICAN USSR as the “Evil Empire” “STAR WARS” Nuclear techno in space… Bush, George W. 41st President (1988-1992) Initiated Middle East Peace process at Camp David between Israel and Egypt (1978), Iranian hostage incident (1979-1980), Soviets invade Afghanistan (1979) which cancels SALT II (June 1979). Former Governor of California, cut spending but “hawkish” on defense, release of American hostages in Iran (1981), Reagan Doctrine (Star Wars which is nuclear weapons in space), and had U.S. invade Grenada (fear of communism). Initiates Desert Storm by sending troops to Kuwait (First Gulf War), President during end of Cold War and fall of Berlin Wall (1989). Soviet Union ceased to exist under his Presidency.

Russian Prime Ministers 1955-1999

Russian Prime Ministers 1955-1999 POLICIES and ASSOCIATIONS Khrushchev, Nikita 1956-1964 Brezhnev, Leonid 1964-1982 Gorbachev, Mikhail 1985-1991 Yeltsin, Boris 1991  S.U.’s collapse! De-Stalinization 1956! Sino-Soviet Split and peaceful co-existence occur under “dopey” (1956) Hungarian and Polish uprising (s), Sputnik (1957), U2 incident with Gary Powers (1960), Berlin Wall (1961), failed attempt to install missiles in Cuba (1962)  Detente: Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and Red Phone Established post Cuba. Intro’s Brezhnev Doctrine – justified intervention in the internal affairs of socialist states (post Prague Spring Czech. 1968). Invokes enormous military machine, Salt I (1972), supplied Vietnamese, Signs Helsinki Accords in 1975. Afghanistan (1979) Perestroika- (restructuring) a radical program of economic reform- political/economic, Glasnost- (openness) political parties, civil liberty, and public debate accepted. Allowed breakup of Warsaw Pact and Comecon, ended Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, collapse of Berlin Wall (Nov. 1989). Russia’s first democratically elected president, signed the START II nuclear disbarment treaty (1993), sent forces into Chechnya (1994 and 1999) There with fall of Soviet Union.