Modern Presidents Flashcards
Franklin Roosevelt
Delano
1933-1945
New Deal, Great Depression, WWII
Harry Truman
S
1945-1953
Dropped the bombs
Dwight Eisenhower
David
1953-1961
War hero, highways, Ike
John Kennedy
Fitzgerald
1961-1963
Being assassinated, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis
Lyndon Johnson
Baines
1963-1969
Expanding Vietnam, Civil Rights Act of ‘64, Great Society
Richard Nixon
Milhous
1969-1974
Watergate, resigning, power
Gerald Ford
Rudolph
1974-1977
Being clumsy, pardoning Nixon
James Carter
Earl
1977-1981
Iran Hostage Crisis, kindness, peanut farmer
Ronald Reagan
Wilson
1981-1989
Reaganomics, war on drugs, Star Wars, ending communism
George Bush I
Herbert Walker
1989-1993
First Gulf War
William Clinton
Jefferson
1993-2001
Lewinsky scandal, being impeached, good economic times, balanced budget, bringing women to the polls more than ever
George Bush II
Walker
2001-2009
9/11, war on terror, invading Iraq
Barack Obama
Hussein
2009-2017
ObamaCare, first black president, state of constant war
Donald Trump
John
2017-present
Annexing Mexico, abolishing term limits, executing Mexicans and Muslims