Powerful & Prominent Presidents

26th Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

Progressive President, Rough Riders during the Spanish American War, Conservation, Trust Bustler

28th Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)

Federal Reserve, WWI president, 14 point peace plan

29th Warren Harding (1921-1923) Died

Return to Narmalcy, Teapot Dome Scandal

31st Herbet Hoover (1929-1933)

Rugged Individualism, president during Stock Market Crash, blamed for Great Depression (Hoovervile)

32nd Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) 1933-1941

4 term president during Great depression & WWI, New Deal, Court Packing

33rd Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)

Pres @ the end of WWII - dropped atomic bombs, Truman Doctrine = containment of communism at any cost

34th Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)

Gen. & Allied Commander during WWII & D- Day, president during Cold War, Starts Space Race

35th John F. Kennedy (JFK) (1961-1963)

continues Space Race, Cuban Missile Crisis (against communism Cuba and Castro)

36th Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) (1963-1969)

Pres. after JFK assassination, Vietnam & escalation, Civil RIghts Act 1964, Great Society (war on provety)

37th Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

Vietnamizarion, Detente with China and Soviet Union, Environmental Protection Agency, War on Drugs, Watergate Scandal

39th Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

stagflation due to oil crisis, Camp David Accords = agreement between Israel and Egypt, Iran Hostage Crisis

40th Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

Conservatism, economic policies, peace through strength, Iran Contra Affair

41st George H.W Bush (1989-1993)

Rust belt to Sun belt migration, Americans with disabilities Act, Persian Gulf War, official end of Cold War

42nd Bill Clinton (1993-2001)

1992 election and Perot, NAFTA, impeachment and scandal

43rd George W. Bush (2001-2009)

2000 election and Gore, 9/11, War on Terror, KAtrina

44th Barack Obama (2009-2017)

2008 election, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act