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| rowspan="4" |Roosevelt, Franklin (FDR)
| rowspan="4" |Roosevelt, Franklin (FDR)
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* Great Depression/ New Deal
* economic regulation
* Fireside chats
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* "Nothing to fear but fear itself"
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|1936
|1936
|1937-1941
|1937-1941
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* social security and other
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|1945-1949
|1945-1949
| rowspan="2" |Truman, Harry S.
| rowspan="2" |Truman, Harry S.
|Truman doctrine
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|Cold War starts
* Truman doctrine
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* Cold War starts
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|1948
|1948
|1949-1953
|1949-1953
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* Korean War
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|1953-1957
|1953-1957
| rowspan="2" |Eisenhower, Dwight
| rowspan="2" |Eisenhower, Dwight
|Ends Korean War
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* ends Korean War


Eisenhower doctrine
* Eisenhower doctrine
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|1957-1961
|1957-1961
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* "missile gap"
* 1957 recession / crisis of confidence
* Suez Canal crisis (US non-intervention)
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* 1950s "normalcy"
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|1960
|1960
|1961-1963
|1961-1963
|Kennedy, John F (JFK)
|Kennedy, John F (JFK)
|Cuban Missile Crisis
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* Bay of Pigs
* Berlin Wall Crisis
* Cuban Missile Crisis
* special forces/ Vietnam


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|1963-1965
|1963-1965
| rowspan="2" |Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ)
| rowspan="2" |Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ)
|pushes Civil Rights law
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* 1964 Civil Rights law
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|1964
|1964
|1965-1969
|1965-1969
|escalates Vietnam
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* Tonkin Gulf Incindent
* Vietnam escalation/ ground troops
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|1969-1973
|1969-1973
|Nixon, Richard M.
|Nixon, Richard M.
|escalates bombing of N. Vietnam
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* escalates bombing of N. Vietnam


Vietnamization/ US troops withdrawal 1971
* Vietnamization/ US troops withdrawal 1971


Detente
* Detente / opening up of China
 
* economic regulation/ inflation
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* Detente
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|1972
|1972
|1973 resigned
|1974 resigned
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|Bombing Cambodia, Laos
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* bombing of Cambodia, Laos


Watergate
* 1973 Oil Crisis
 
* Watergate
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* Watergate
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|1973
|1974
|1977
|1974-1977
|Ford, Gerald R.
|Ford, Gerald R.
|Nixon pardon
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* Nixon pardon
 
* inflation
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|1977-1981
|1977-1981
|Carter, Jimmy
|Carter, Jimmy
|inflation
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* inflation / stagflation / gas crisis
* loss of US international leadership
* Iran Hostage Crisis
* deregulation
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* "Malaise" (Crisis of Confidence) speech
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|1980
|1980
|1981-1985
|1981-1985
| rowspan="2" |Reagan, Ronald
| rowspan="2" |Reagan, Ronald
|Reaganomics
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* Reaganomics


Cold War escalation ("star wars, military spending, etc.")
* Cold War escalation ("star wars, military spending, etc.")
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* optimism
* American cultural hegemony
* deregulation / Wall Street
* Vietnam Memorial / Vets/ POW MIA
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|1984
|1984
|1985-1989
|1985-1989
|Talks w/ Russians
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* Talks w/ Russians
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|1989-1993
|1989-1993
|Bush, Herbert Walker (HW Bush)
|Bush, Herbert Walker (HW Bush)
|Collapse of Soviet Union / "peace dividend"
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* Collapse of Soviet Union / "peace dividend"


Gulf War
* Gulf War


denuclearization of former Soviet republics
* denuclearization of former Soviet republics
|"New World Order"  
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* "New World Order"
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|1992
|1992