Politics Timeline

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  • WW2 Ended

    WW2 Ended

    Harry Truman President
    Start of Cold War
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    Post WW2

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    LIberal Age

  • Legislative Reorganization Act

    The most comprehensive reorganization of the United States Congress in history

  • Truman Doctrine

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    Cold War

  • NATO Founded

  • Dwight Eisenhower (President)

    Dwight Eisenhower (President)

    Nixon's Checkers Speach
    Helped end Korean War
    Dynamic Conservatism
  • JFK (Prsident)

    JFK (Prsident)

    Established Peace Corps
    Worked for civil rights
    Assassinated after 2 1/2 years
    New Frontier
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    Berlin Wall

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Lyndon Johnson (Preident)

    Lyndon Johnson (Preident)

    Took over for JFK

  • Medicaid founded

  • Richard Nixon (President)

    Richard Nixon (President)

    Improved relations with Soviet Union + China
    Pulled out of Veitnam
    Watergate
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    Consevative Age

  • Watergate Scandal

  • Gerald Ford (President)

    Gerald Ford (President)

    Pardoned Nixon
  • James Carter (President)

    James Carter (President)

    Negotiated Camp David peace
    Returned control of Panama Canal ro Panama
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    Conservative Movement

  • Ronald Reagan (President)

    Ronald Reagan (President)

    Oldest elected president
    Iran hostages released
    Reganomics
  • George H.W. Bush (President)

    George H.W. Bush (President)

    Strategic Arms Redution Treaty
    Fall of Berlin Wall
    Collapse of Soviet Union
  • Bill Clinton (President)

    Bill Clinton (President)

    Impeached by Congress
    Acquitted
    Anti Crime laws
    North American Free Trade Agreement

  • Impeachment Of Clinton

    Aquitted of all charges 1999
  • George W Bush

    George W Bush

  • 9/11

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    War on Terror

  • No child left behind Act

  • Tea Party Movement

  • Barack Obama (President)

    Barack Obama (President)