1. Presidential Bash Part I: Who said it?

2. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Ronald Reagan Berlin Wall

3. The US pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty.” John F. Kennedy Cold War containment (Truman Doctrine)

4. “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt Great Depression

5. “Make the world safe for democracy.” Woodrow Wilson Asking Congress to declare war on the Central Powers (WWI

6. “A day that will live in infamy!” Franklin Delano Roosevelt Asking Congress to declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbor

7. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address encouraging Americans to volunteer

8. “It’s like lending a garden hose to a neighbor whose house is on fire.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lend-Lease Act to help Britain during WWII

9. Presidential Bash Part II: The Recent Guys

10. Ronald Reagan Reagan and Conservative Republicans : –Passed Tax Cuts –Transferred power from the national government to state governments –Appointed judges who practiced “Judicial Restraint” –Made the national government smaller except for a very strong military

12. The Reagan Revolution Reagan and his conservative ideas were popular: –His Vice President – George HW Bush was elected president –The next president, Bill Clinton, was a Democrat, but he was not liberal (a centrist) –Republicans swept Congressional and state elections in 1990 –George W. Bush was elected after Clinton

13. The Reagan Revolution A shift to the right, but how long will (or did) that last?

14. George HW Bush Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe Re-unification of Germany

15. George HW Bush Collapse of Yugoslavia Break-up of the Soviet State

16. George HW Bush Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991 –First war in which women served in combat roles –Known as Operation Desert Storm

17. Bill Clinton North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) open trading between Canada, US, Mexico Full diplomatic relations with Vietnam for the first time since the Vietnam War

18. Bill Clinton Lifted economic sanctions against South Africa when they ended Apartheid (segregation) NATO Action in former Yugoslavia

19. George W. Bush 9/11 Terrorist Attacks War in Iraq War in Afghanistan