Presidents of the United States
TWENTIETH CENTURY PRESIDENTS
William McKinley - 1897-1902 Spanish-American War 1898 - America an Imperial power Theodore Roosevelt - 1902-1909 Progressive Era - government reform - industrial reform America grows as a world and military power William Howard Taft - 1909-1913 Further American presence in Latin America - government reform of large corporations - Split in the Republican Party Woodrow Wilson - 1913-1921 Further Progressive Reform - Federal Reserve created - 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments - women's suffrage - World War I - Treaty of Versailles - Red Scare Warren Harding - 1921-1923 "Normalcy" - corruption - Anti-immigrant sentiment - Pro-business approach - Prohibition - international treaties on naval power - disarmament Calvin Coolidge - 1923-1929 Low taxes - pro-business approach - anti-union attitude - small government philosophy - farm crisis - Border Patrol - disarmament continued Herbert Hoover - 1929-1933 Economic crisis - more dynamic government approach - The Great Depression Franklin Roosevelt - 1933-1945 The Great Depression - The New Deal - World War II - end of Prohibition - beginning of Civil Rights Movement - new role for government Harry Truman - 1945-1953 The Atomic Bomb - The Cold War - McCarthyism - Civil Rights - the Fair Deal Dwight Eisenhower - 1953-1961 The Cold War - Sputnik - moderate Republicanism - NASA, highways, and education John F. Kennedy - 1961 -1963 The Cold War - Cuba - Vietnam - Civil Rights - Assassination Lyndon Johnson - 1963-1969 The Great Society - The Civil Rights Movement - Vietnam Richard Nixon - 1969-1974 Vietnam - Stagflation economic crisis - -Energy crisis - Detente - opening to China - Law and Order - the Southern Strategy - the Environmental Movement - The War on Drugs - Watergate Gerald Ford - 1974-1977 Stagflation - pardon of Nixon - Detente Jimmy Carter - 1977-1981 Stagflation - Iranian Revolution and Hostage Crisis - Deregulation Ronald Reagan - 1981-1989 Defense buildup - deficit spending - tax cuts - Evil Empire of the Soviet Union - end to Detente - continued government deregulation of economy - AIDS crisis - Iran Contra - The War on Drugs George H.W. Bush - 1989-1993 End of the Cold War - Iraq and Saddam Hussein invasion of Kuwait - tax policy Bill Clinton - 1993-2001 Welfare reform - criminal justice reform - Impeachment George W. Bush - 2001-2009 Tax cuts - pro-business approach - 9/11 - War on Terror - Invasion of Afghanistan - Invasion of Iraq - 2008 economic collapse Barack Obama - 2009-2017 Continued War on Terror - government rescue of the economy - Obamacare healthcare reform - Gay rights |