The Presidents

Nixon ToObama

Richard M. Nixon- Republican

• Domestic Issues- Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, Crime, Protest of Vietnam

• OPEC- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Counties • * Foreign Relations with China- Opposition

to Communism but opened trade and diplomacy

• Watergate

• Vietnamesation

Gerald Ford- Republican

• Succession to Presidency following Nixon

• * Pardoning Nixon- Pardoned Nixon to save the country from the impeachment trial

Jimmy Carter-Republican

• Inflation- Prices and unemployment rose 10%

• *Camp David Accords- Peace Agreement between Israel and Egypt ending 30 years of conflict

• Iran Hostage Crisis- Iranians overrun US embassy and held 52

Americans hostage for

444 days

Ronald Reagan-Republican

• * Reaganomics- Trickle down economics, lower taxes, smaller government

• Star Wars Defense Initiative- anti-communist arms build up

• Iran Contra Affair- US sold weapons to Iran

for help in the hostage

crisis

George H.W. Bush- Republican

• End of Cold War/ Berlin Fails- one by one communist governments began to fall. Berlin Wall opened up, Iron curtain falls (USSR)

• * Persian Gulf War- 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait (oil), UN forces bombed Iraq

military targets, Iraq

retreated

William J. Clinton- Democrat

• NAFTA- North American Free Trade Agreement lifted taxes to increase trade to Mexico, Canada and the US.

• *Economic Growth- Budget surpluses, 22 million new jobs created, unemployment and inflation were at the lowest levels in more than 30 years, and economic expansion

• War in Kosovo-

Civil War in Yugoslavia

• *Impeachment- Impeached by the House

Acquitted by the Senate

George W. Bush- Republican

• Election Controversy- All depended on Fl., voting machines invalid, recount, Supreme Court got involved. Issue: electoral college count vs. popular vote?

• * September 11th/ Terrorism- Dept. of Homeland Security

• *War in Afghanistan- Afghan govt. harbored Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda

• *War in Iraq- Iraq supplying WMD’s to terrorists. Goal: create a republican Iraqi

govt. and rid Iraq of Hussein

Barack Obama- Democrat

Issues of the current administration:• Immigration• Health Care• Foreign Policy • Environment• Education• Taxes• The ECONOMY!