Presidents

Presidents 1945 to the Present

Harry Truman – Democrat – 1945 to 1953

Positive:

Created the Marshall Plan

Abolished segregation in the Armed Forces

Dropped the Atomic Bomb (positive because it was a route that didn’t involved US soldiers dying)

Supported United Nations

Recognized State of Israel

Mistakes:

Getting involved in the Korean War

Truman Doctrine

Dwight Eisenhower – Republican – 1953 to 1961

Positive:

Brought an armistice agreement to the Korean War

Signed Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956

Supported the decision of Brown v. Board of Education

Social Security Program introduced

Launched the Space Race

Mistakes:

Increased priority of Nuclear Weapons

Kept pressure on Soviet Union increasing tensions for war

John F. Kennedy – Democrat – 1961 to 1963

Positive:

Created Peace Corps

Nuclear Ban Test Treaty adopted

Proposed Civil Rights Act of 1964

Proposed “New Frontier” domestic programs

Proposed Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Mistakes:

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Cuban Missile Crissis

Lyndon Johnson – Democrat – 1963 to 1969

Positive:

Designed the “Great Society”

Introduced Medicare

Passed Civil Rights Act of 1964

Compromised Medicaid

Passed Economic Opportunity Act

Mistakes:

Tet Offensive

Expanding numbers in Vietnam

Richard Nixon – Republican – 1969 to 1974

Positive:

Opened Diplomatic Relations with China

Removed American Involvement in Vietnam

Approved development of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program

Supported Israel against Soviet’s Allies

Signed Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

Mistakes:

Water Gate Scandal

Supporting Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971

Gerald Ford – Republican – 1974 to 1977

Positive:

Did not intervene North Vietnamese invasion on the South

Passed Tax Reduction Act of 1975

Prevented spread of Swine Flu

Signed Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975

With drawled all US Citizens from Saigon before its fall.

Mistakes:

Took much criticism for Watergate

Proclamation of 4311

Jimmy Carter – Democratic –