Presidents History Term 6

JFK

Cuban Missile Crisis - 13 day standoff between the U.S. and USSR

JFK

Bay of Pigs Invasion - a failed CIA operation by Cuban Exiles

JFK

Assassination - shot in Texas 11/22/1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald

LBJ

Vietnam war escalation - increased troops after Gulf of Tonkin

LBJ

Civil rights and Voting rights passed

Nixon

Relations with China - visits to ease tensions

Nixon

Moon Landing - Apollo 11 mission by NASA

Nixon

Watergate scandal - linked to DNC break in; faced impeachement

Nixon

Pentagon papers - classified documents about Vietnam war leaked to the public

Carter

Iran Hostage Crisis

Carter

three mile island - Nuclear meltdown

Carter

Energy Crisis/inflation - oil shortage and rising gas prices

Reagan

Reganomics - policy focused on tax cuts, deregulation, and reduced spending

Reagan

Cold war/evil empire - took hardline stance on USSR; worked with Mikhail Gorbachev

Reagan

Challenger disaster - shuttle exploded killing all 7 crew members

Reagan

Iran Contra - sold arms to Iran and used profits

HW Bush

fall of Berlin Wall

HW Bush

Collapse of USSR

HW Bush

Gulf war - invaded Kuwait; operation desert storm

HW Bush

Economic Recession

Clinton

Tech Boom

Clinton

NAFTA - trade with Mexico and Canada

Clinton

Oklahoma City Bombing - domestic terriost Timothy McVeigh bombed federal building killing 168

Clinton

Impeachment - lying under oath about Monica Lewinsky

W Bush

9/11

W Bush

War in Afghanistan - remove taliban from power

W Bush

Iraq war - invaded because of claims of Weapons of mass destruction

W Bush

Great Recession - triggered by housing collapse

W Bush

2001-2009 R

Clinton

1993-2001 D

HW Bush

1989 -1993 R

Reagan

1981-1989 R

Carter

1977-1981 D

Nixon

1969 -1974 R

LBJ

1963 - 1969 D

JFK

1961 - 1963 D

LBJ

great society - 1965 voting rights act, medicare and medicaid, elementary and secondary education act

Nixon

New Federalism - reduced federal involvement

Nixon

passed EPA

Nixon

tile IX

JFK

flexible response

JFK

New Frontier