1. Presidential Legacies

2. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
“Trust-Buster”
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Conservation (opened 3 new national parks)
Yosemite
Yellowstone
Grand Tetons
Panama Canal

3. Woodrow Wilson ( )
Women’s Suffrage / Woman’s vote (19th Amendment)
League of Nations
Federal Reserve Act

4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)
“New Deal”
WWII
Elected to four terms
22nd Amendment
Expansion of government and the Executive Branch
“Fear itself”

5. Harry Truman (1945-1953) Atomic bomb decision
Desegregation of military
Marshall Plan
NATO
Korean War
“The buck stops here”

6. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII
Ended Korean War
Interstate Highway System
Warned against the “Military- Industrial complex”
Frances Gary Powers fiasco
Sputnik
25th Amendment

7. John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) Youngest elected president
War Hero (PT-109)
Bay of Pigs disaster
Cuban Missile Crisis
Moon challenge
Peace Corps
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Assassinated 1963 in Dallas,Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald

8. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969)
Civil Rights Act 1964
Tax Cut of 1964
“Great Society”
Vietnam War

9. Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974) Vietnam War expansion China relations
“Détente” with USSR
Watergate scandal
First president to resign

10. Gerald Ford (1974-1977) Nixon pardon First unelected President
Confronted high inflation problem
A terrible golfer
Two assassination attempts

11. Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) Elected as an “outsider”
Dealt with extreme economic conditions
Camp David Accord
Panama Canal Treaty
Iran Hostage Crisis

12. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) Oldest elected president “Reaganomics”
“Ended” Cold War
Known as “Great Communicator”
Iran-Contra scandal

13. George H.W. Bush (1989-1993) Persian Gulf War
Americans with Disabilities Act
Pardoned major Iran-Contra scandal figures

14. William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001)
Largest tax increase
Created first federal budget surplus
Somalia and Bosnia
Sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky
2nd president to be impeached

15. George W. Bush ( )
Won 2001 election by slimmest Electoral margin in history
Rearranged government after 9/11
Bush Doctrine (Pre-emptive war)
Iraq war
Largest deficits in U.S. history
Financial crisis when leaving office

16. Barack H. Obama (2009 – Present)
First minority president
Inherited deep recession
Nobel Peace Prize (2009)
Healthcare Reform passed
Committed US forces to the conflict in Libya