US Presidents timeline
Timeline of American Presidents w/ major events/ themes for each administration
| Election year | Admin years | President | Big Events | Major themes |
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| >> prior yrs to do | ||||
| 1896 | 1897-1900 | McKinley, William | ||
| 1901 assumed office | 1909-1905 | Roosevelt, Theodore (TR) | ||
| 1904 | 1905-1909 | |||
| 1908 | 1909-1913 | Taft, William Howard | ||
| 1912 | 1913-1917 | Wilson, Woodrow | ||
| 1916 | 1917-1921 | |||
| 1920 | 1921-1923 | Harding, Warren | ||
| 1923 assumed office | 1923-1925 | Coolidge, Calvin | ||
| 1924 | 1925-1929 | |||
| 1928 | 1929-1933 | Hoover, Herbert | ||
| 1932 | 1933-1937 | Roosevelt, Franklin (FDR) | ||
| 1936 | 1937-1941 | |||
| 1940 | 1941-1944 | |||
| 1945 | died in office | |||
| 1945 assumed office | 1945-1949 | Truman, Harry S. | Truman doctrine | Cold War starts |
| 1948 | 1949-1953 | |||
| 1952 | 1953-1957 | Eisenhower, Dwight | Ends Korean War
Eisenhower doctrine |
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| 1956 | 1957-1961 | |||
| 1960 | 1961-1963 | Kennedy, John F (JFK) | Cuban Missile Crisis | |
| 1963 assumed office | 1963-1965 | Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ) | pushes Civil Rights law | |
| 1964 | 1965-1969 | escalates Vietnam | ||
| 1968 | 1969-1973 | Nixon, Richard M. | escalates bombing of N. Vietnam
Vietnamization/ US troops withdrawal 1971 Detente |
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| 1972 | 1973 resigned | Bombing Cambodia, Laos
Watergate |
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| 1973 | 1977 | Ford, Gerald R. | Nixon pardon | |
| 1976 | 1977-1981 | Carter, Jimmy | inflation | |
| 1980 | 1981-1985 | Reagan, Ronald | Reaganomics
Cold War escalation ("star wars, military spending, etc.") |
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| 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 |