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U.S. History
Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Willam Mckinley | President from 1897-1901. Was involved in the Spanish American war, and the annexation of hawaii. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President from 1901-1909. Establish the Panama Canal. Known for trust busting and big stick diplomacy as well as roosvelt corollary. |
| William Howard Taft | President from 1909-1913.Known for his dollar diplamcy. |
| Woodrow Wilson | President from 1913-1921.Advocated women's suffrage. President who got the U.S. involved in world war I. Proposed 14 points. |
| Warren G. Harding | President from 1921-1923. Called for a return to normalcy. Known for the teapot dome scandal. |
| Herbert Hoover | President from 1929-1933. President who got brought the U.S. into the Great Depression. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President from 1932-1945. Longest elected president.Pulled country from the great depression. Known for his new deal policy. Declared war on Japan after Pearl Harbor. |
| Harry s. Truman | President from 1945-1953. Brought world war II to an end. Established the truman doctorine which contained communism. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | President from 1953-1961. Created the interstate highway. Extended U.S containment policy in the middle east. |
| John F. Kinnedy. | Presidnet from 1961-1963. New frontier policy and space race. |
| Lydon B. Johnson | President from 1963-1968. Great society and involved us in the veitname war. |
| Richard Nixon | President from 1969-1974. Normalized relations with china.Intoduced detente with soviet union. Watergate scandal. Ended vietnam war. |
| Ronald Reagan | President from 1981-1989. Introduced reagonomics which reduced taxes & regulations to encourage business activity. Saw the beginning of the end of cold war. Peace through strenth. |
| Bill Clinton | President from 1993-2001. Affair scandal. |