US Presidents simple timeline

Timeline of American Presidents w/ major events/ themes for each administration

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Election year	Admin years	President	Big Events	Major themes
1896	1897-1900	McKinley, William	tariff pro-gold standard Spanish-American War assassinated by anarchist	Gold standard economic recovery Spanish-American War
1901 assumed office	1909-1905	Roosevelt, Theodore (TR)	progressivism anti-trusts aggressive foreign policy (Panama, "Great White Fleet", "Roosevelt Corollary")
1904	1905-1909		government intervention in the economy
1908	1909-1913	Taft, William Howard	managed progressivism (not as radical as TR) aggressive anti-trust tariff reform/ but not successful
1912	1913-1917	Wilson, Woodrow	progressive segregated the US government (racist) isolationist leading up to 1916 election
1916	1917-1921		entry to WWI government control of the economy League of Nations (after WWI)
1920	1921-1923	Harding, Warren	economic recovery from panic of 1920/21 recovery from WWI "return to normalcy" reducing taxes and regulations from the War focusing on economy not regulations/ isolationist "Teapot Dome scandal" (Alaska land deal corruption)	economy scandal
1923 assumed office	1923-1925	Coolidge, Calvin
1924	1925-1929
1928	1929-1933	Hoover, Herbert	1929 Stock Market crash Smoot-Hawley Act (tariffs) bank failures, etc. lame duck period	Great Depression starts inability to deal with it economically and politically
1932	1933-1937	Roosevelt, Franklin (FDR)	Great Depression/ New Deal economic regulation Fireside chats (radio talks)	"Nothing to fear but fear itself" had poor economic response (NRA didn't work, didn't solve the depression), but had a very strong political response (public opinion, perception of dealing it, doing something, etc)
1936	1937-1941		social security and other
1940	1941-1944		war footing, preparation without official entry to the war Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941
1945	died in office
1945 assumed office	1945-1949	Truman, Harry S.	Truman doctrine	Cold War starts
1948	1949-1953		Korean War
1952	1953-1957	Eisenhower, Dwight	ends Korean War Eisenhower doctrine
1956	1957-1961		"missile gap" 1957 recession / crisis of confidence Suez Canal crisis (US non-intervention)	1950s "normalcy"
1960	1961-1963	Kennedy, John F (JFK)	Bay of Pigs Berlin Wall Crisis Cuban Missile Crisis special forces/ Vietnam
1963 assumed office	1963-1965	Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ)	1964 Civil Rights law
1964	1965-1969		Tonkin Gulf Incindent Vietnam escalation/ ground troops
1968	1969-1973	Nixon, Richard M.	escalates bombing of N. Vietnam Vietnamization/ US troops withdrawal 1971 Detente / opening up of China economic regulation/ inflation	Detente
1972	1974 resigned		bombing of Cambodia, Laos 1973 Oil Crisis Watergate	Watergate
1974	1974-1977	Ford, Gerald R.	Nixon pardon inflation
1976	1977-1981	Carter, Jimmy	inflation / stagflation / gas crisis loss of US international leadership Iran Hostage Crisis deregulation	"Malaise" (Crisis of Confidence) speech
1980	1981-1985	Reagan, Ronald	Reaganomics Cold War escalation ("star wars, military spending, etc.")	optimism American cultural hegemony deregulation / Wall Street Vietnam Memorial / Vets/ POW MIA
1984	1985-1989		Talks w/ Russians
1988	1989-1993	Bush, Herbert Walker (HW Bush)	Collapse of Soviet Union / "peace dividend" Gulf War denuclearization of former Soviet republics	"New World Order"
1992	1993-1997	Clinton, Bill
1996	1997-2001
2000	2001-2005	Bush, George W (GW Bush)
2004	2005-2009
2008	2009-2013	Obama, Barack
2012	2013-2017
2016	2017-2021	Trump, Donald
2020	2021-	Biden, Joe