Containment Truman Doctrine Greece and Turkey Marshall PlanW

Containment Truman Doctrine Greece and Turkey Marshall Plan-W. Europe economic aid Berlin Airlift NATO “Iron Curtain” Speech

Dixiecrats 1948 Presidential Election

Truman’s Victory

Europe 1942

Europe 1945

Europe 1970

Korean War 1950 -53

Korean War -United Nations War

Korean War

Korean War Memorial

General Douglas Mc. Arthur

Mc. Carthyism-Sen. Joseph Mc. Carthy

President Eisenhower

President Eisenhower • • Ends Korean War Brinkmanship U 2 incident Federal Highway system • Domino Theory

Francis Gary Powers CIA

U 2 Spy Plane shot down over the USSR

President Kennedy

President Kennedy • Bay of Pigs Incident • Cuban Missile Crisis • Peace Corp. • Berlin Wall Built • Space Race • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty-with USSR

Berlin Wall 1961 -1989

Berlin Wall 1963

Cuban Missile Crisis

“We will bury you” Nikita Khrushchev

Cuban Missile Crisis Eleven US Presidents have dealt unsuccessfully with Fidel Castro

President Kennedy

Dallas -1963

President Johnson 11 -22 -63 Dallas

Oswald is gunned down Warren Commission

Warren Commission

New Deal & Great Society

President Johnson • Great Society • • “War on Poverty” Food stamps Medicaid Medicare Head Start VISTA Welfare

President Johnson Civil Rights Act-1964 Voters Rights Act

1960’s Civil Rights

Vietnam

USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin

Gulf of Tonkin Incident & Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

President Johnson Vietnam War

Vietnam War My Lai Massacre

President Nixon

President Nixon in China

President Nixon • • • Peace Candidate-1968 Vietnamization program Détente- Slows the Cold War SALT Opens China Widened the War into Cambodia • Great Foreign Policy President

Kent St. - 1970

President Nixon

President Nixon

President Nixon • Watergate burglary • Watergate scandal • Secret White House Tapes • Impeachment • Resignation • Disgrace

President Ford

President Ford “Our Long National Nightmare is Over” 25 th Amendment President Nixon Pardon Oil Crisis

President Carter

President Carter • • • Camp David Peace Accord Iran Hostage Crisis Ayatollah Khomeini. Panama Canal treaty Failed rescue attempt of Hostages • Human Rights Priority • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

President Carter

Iranian Hostage Crisis-1979

Iranian Hostages Failed rescue attempt

Iran

Iran Islamic fundamentalism

President Reagan

President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev and Nuclear Disarmament

President Reagan Mr. Gorbachev “Tear down this Wall”-1987

President George H. Bush 41&43 President George W. Bush

Gulf War Operation Desert Storm

Start Treaty

President George H. Bush “Read My Lips”

President Clinton

President Clinton

President George W. Bush

Homeland Security and a War on Terrorism

Afghanistan

Iraq

War with Iraq

Iraqi Freedom

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