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