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Jimmy Carter ran against Gerald Ford, winning the popular vote by 2 million votes.
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39th President, he successfully mediated talks between Israel and Egypt and he failed to get the hostages out of Iran.
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Ronald Reagan ran against Jimmy Carter, winning because Jimmy Carter's weakness.
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40th president of the United States, he worked with Mikhail Garbaches who had recently come into power and helped bring democratic and social reforms to the Soviet Union.
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George H.W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis, Bush won, becoming the first serving V.P. to become president since Martin Van Buren in 1836, and he would only last one term.
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Saddam claimed that Kuwait belonged to Iraq, so they invaded Kuwait. They were told to withdraw and refused, so President Bush launched Operation Desert Storm. A cease-fire was announced Feb 28, 1991.
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Bill Clinton went against Bush, whose approval rating had recently just dropped because he was forced to raise taxes after a recession, and Ross Perot, winning against them.
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42nd President, hekept the economy extremely strong and balanced his budget well. Unemployment fell and the stock market soaed, and he also helped improve relations with Russia and China
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George W. Bush went against Al Gore, beating him after a recount of electoral votes, Al Gore won the popular vote.
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Islamic terrorists that were part of Al-Qaeda flew 2 planes into the World Trade Center, a plane into the Pentagon and one crashed outside of Philadelphia, roughly 3,000 were killed
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Almost 2 years after the attack on 9/11, American and British forces invaded Iraq under the assumption that Saddam Hussein had WMD's, but none were found. Sadam was found, tried, and executed in 2006.
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Barack Obama ran against John McCain, winning, becoming the first black President in US history.
