1 / 18

United States Presidents

United States Presidents. Lesson #5 of Packet. Democrats (Counterclockwise around the table beginning in lower left): Jimmy Carter, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, and William J. Clinton. .

ramla
Télécharger la présentation

United States Presidents

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. United States Presidents Lesson #5 of Packet

  2. Democrats (Counterclockwise around the table beginning in lower left): Jimmy Carter, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, and William J. Clinton. Republicans (Counterclockwise around the table beginning in lower left): George H.W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower , George W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan.

  3. Harry S. Truman • 33rd President • 1945-1953 (after Roosevelt’s Death) • Democrat • Decisive • Common Sense • United Nations • Dropped Atomic Bomb

  4. Dwight D. Eisenhower (IKE) • 34th President • 1953-1961 • Republican • Moral Leadership • Ended Korean War • Formed NASA • Established Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare • Interstate Highway System

  5. John F. Kennedy (JFK) "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." • 35th President • 1961-1963 (Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald) • Democrat • Focus on youth and culture • Future and Promise • Promote Civil Rights Act • Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs • Established Peace Corps

  6. Lyndon B. Johnson • 36th President • 1963-1969 • Democrat • Deal Maker • Good Domestic Leader • A Great Society • Started Fighting in Vietnam • Space Race

  7. Richard Nixon • 37th President • 1969-1974 • Republican • Reconciliation (Stop divide in US) • World Stability • Watergate Scandal • Starts to end Fighting in Vietnam • Improved Relations with USSR

  8. Gerald Ford(died 12/06) • 38th President • 1974-1977 • Republican • Integrity and Openness • Moderate • Less Taxes • Pardoned Nixon • Economic Problems

  9. Jimmy Carter • 39th President • 1977-1981 • Democrat • Human Rights • Tried to help US (high interest rates) • Signed treaty for operation of Panama Canal • Iran Hostage situation • Created US Dept. of Education

  10. Ronald Reagandied 6/04 • 40th President • 1981-1989 • Republican • Wanted to have less reliance on Gov’t • Loved or hated (no middle) • Great Speaker • Helped end Soviet Union and communism • Great Foreign Diplomat • Reaganomics

  11. George H.W. Bush • 41st President • 1989-1993 • Republican • Compassionate Conservative • American Values • End of Soviet Union (Berlin Wall) • Iraq Gulf War • Recession (slow economy)

  12. William (Bill) Clinton • 42nd President • 1993-2001 • Democrat (1st Dem. Re-elected to second term since FDR) • Great Public Speaker • Moderate over time • Budget Surplus (fiscal Conservative) • Was impeached • NAFTA • Low unemployment • Bombed Iraq • First attack on World Trade Center

  13. George W. Bush • 43rd President • 2001-Present • Republican • Decisive but stubborn • Less reliance on Government • Iraq • 9/11 • ?? http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/#

  14. Presidential Oath- • "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLaJMdzOwi8

  15. Presidential Commercials http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/

  16. 2008 Presidential Candidates

  17. http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/ • http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/

More Related