Presidents of the 20 th – 21 st Century

Theodore Roosevelt Nations youngest President when McKinley was assassinated Nobel Peace Prize winner 26 th President

William H. Taft Only person to be the President and Chief Justice 27 th President

Woodrow Wilson On April 2,1917, he asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. President during WW I 28 th President

Twenty-Ninth President Warren G. Harding Tea Pot Dome scandal- After jurisdiction over naval oil reserves were transferred to the Department of the Interior, secretary Albert B. Fall leased Teapot Dome to oil interests in exchange for a bribe. Fall eventually spent time in a federal prison because of his actions Died in office while visiting Alaska

Calvin Coolidge In 1924, as the beneficiary of what was becoming known as "Coolidge prosperity," Faith in our Gov’t after Teapot Dome! Thirtieth President Reduced our National Debt

Thirty-First President Herbert Hoover 1929 Stock Market Crash President during the Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt Thirty-Second President He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 President throughout most of the Great Depression Largest expansion of federal government in US History- “New Deal”

Harry S Truman Thirty-Third President Ended WW II Aug 6 th -9 th 1945 atomic bombs dropped Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1950 Korean War Truman Doctrine= Prevent the spread Of Communism

Dwight D. Eisenhower He commanded the Allied Forces D-Day June, D-Day Thirty-Fourth President Ended Korean War Began talks with USSR

John F. Kennedy Thirty-Fifth President The assassination of JFK Friday, November 22, 1963 Cuban Missile Crisis Backed the Civil Rights Movement

Lyndon B. Johnson "A Great $ociety" Thirty-Sixth President Communist encroachment in Viet Nam aid to education fight against poverty 1968 limited the bombing of North Viet Nam

Richard M. Nixon Thirty-Seventh President Watergate Scandal Nixon Resigns First and Only the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program Nixon wasn’t all bad!

Gerald R. Ford Thirty-Eighth President First Vice President chosen under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment Aftermath of the Watergate scandal, was succeeding the first President ever to resign First President not to be elected VP or Prez

Jimmy Carter Thirty-Ninth President Iran Hostage Crisis 52 Americans U. S. embassy staff in Iran contributed to Carter's defeat in 1980 Today Habitat for Humanity

Ronald Reagan Fortieth President Actor and president Screen Actors Guild "peace through strength." Beginning of the end Cold War Weakened Communism Nation enjoyed its longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression.

George H. W. Bush Forty-First President Cold War officially ended Berlin Wall fell President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait 100-hour land battle dubbed Desert Storm

William J. Clinton Forty-Second President nd Prez to be impeached Tried in the Senate found not guilty United States experienced a long period of peace-time economic expansion

George Walker Bush Forty Third President 2000 to present Current war with Iraq September 11 th, 2001 Only time there’s been a father and son both be president!!!

Barack H. Obama Administration 1 st African American President!!! Democrat Largest expansion of Federal government since Lyndon Johnson Economic $timulus Package of 2009 Affordable Health Care Act 2010 “YES WE CAN!!!”