Presidential Bash
Part I: Who said it?
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Ronald ReaganBerlin Wall
The US pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any
friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival
and success of liberty.”John F. Kennedy
Cold War containment (Truman Doctrine)
“We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.”
Franklin Delano RooseveltGreat Depression
“Make the world safe for democracy.”
Woodrow WilsonAsking Congress to declare war on the
Central Powers (WWI
“A day that will live in infamy!”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Asking Congress to declare war on Japan
after Pearl Harbor
“Ask not what your country can do for
you; ask what you can do for your country.”
John F. Kennedy
Inaugural Address encouraging Americans to volunteer
“It’s like lending a garden hose to a neighbor whose house is on fire.”
Franklin Delano RooseveltLend-Lease Act to help
Britain during WWII
Presidential Bash
Part II: The Recent Guys
Ronald Reagan• Reagan and Conservative
Republicans :– Passed Tax Cuts– Transferred power from the national
government to state governments – Appointed judges who practiced
“Judicial Restraint”– Made the national government smaller
except for a very strong military
The Reagan Revolution
• Reagan and his conservative ideas were popular:– His Vice President – George HW Bush was
elected president– The next president, Bill Clinton, was a
Democrat, but he was not liberal (a centrist)
– Republicans swept Congressional and state elections in 1990
– George W. Bush was elected after Clinton
The Reagan Revolution
• A shift to the right, but how long will (or did) that last?
George HW Bush• Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe• Re-unification of Germany
George HW Bush• Collapse of Yugoslavia• Break-up of the Soviet State
George HW Bush• Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991
– First war in which women served in combat roles– Known as Operation Desert Storm
Bill Clinton• North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) open trading between Canada, US , Mexico
• Full diplomatic relations with Vietnam for the first time since the Vietnam War
Bill Clinton• Lifted economic sanctions against
South Africa when they ended Apartheid (segregation)
• NATO Action in former Yugoslavia
George W. Bush• 9/11 Terrorist Attacks• War in Iraq• War in Afghanistan