Mr. Marston
Arcadia High School
11th grade/U.S. History
Presidential Notebook
Presidential Policies (Foreign and Domestic)
25th President-William McKinley
Domestic Policies:
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Foreign Policies:
1) Annexation of Hawaii
2) Spanish American War, Treaty of Paris, Platt Amendment, Boxer Rebellion
26th President-Theodore Roosevelt
Domestic Policies:
1) Square Deal (Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food & Drug Act, Conservation,
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Foreign Policies:
1) Imperialism (Panama Canal, Big stick diplomacy (Roosevelt corollary),
2) Mexican Revolution,
27th President-William Howard Taft
Domestic Policies:
1) Payne-Aldrich Tariff
2) Government lands to Public lands
Foreign Policies:
1) Dollar Diplomacy
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28th President-Woodrow Wilson
Domestic Policies:
1) Clayton Anti Trust Act of 1914, War Industries Board, Food Administration
2) Selective Service Act of 1917, Red Scare, Sacco & Vanzetti, Quota system,
Foreign Policies:
1) Lend Lease, Neutrality Acts,
2) League of Nations, Treaty of Versailles, Wilson’s Fourteen Points
29th President-Warren G. Harding
Domestic Policies:
1) Return to normalcy, Teapot Dome scandal,
2) Pro Business Policies
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Foreign Policies:
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30th President-Calvin Coolidge
Domestic Policies:
1) McNary- Haugen Bill,
2) Pro Business Polices
Foreign Policies:
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31st President-Herbert Hoover
Domestic Policies:
1) Great Depression, Stock Market crash, Hawley-Smoot tariff
2) Federal Home & Loan bank act, Reconstruction Finance Corporation Bonus Army
Foreign Policies:
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32nd President-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Domestic Policies:
1) New Deal (AAA, CCC, WPA, NRA, TVA)
2) Dealing with the Depression, Manhattan Project
Foreign Policies:
1) WWII, two front war: Hitler-Europe, Tojo-Japan
2) Pearl Harbor,
33rd President-Harry S. Truman
Domestic Policies:
1) Fair Deal, strike in 1946 of 4.5 million workers in US, HUAC committee
2) McCarthyism, Manhattan Project
Foreign Policies:
1) Dropping of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki-ended WWII
2) Formation of United Nations, Berlin Airlift, Korean War
34th President-Dwight David Eisenhower
Domestic Policies:
1) Interstate Highway System, McCarthyism
2) Brown v. Board of education, Formation of CIA, Little Rock 9
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Foreign Policies:
1) U-2 Spy plane incident, Brinksmanship
2) Cold War,
35th President-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Domestic Policies:
1) Civil Rights,
2) Assault on poverty, Formation of Special Forces
Foreign Policies:
1) Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, sent military advisors in Vietnam
2) Space Race (Great Frontier), formation of the Peace Corps, Flexible Response
36th President-Lyndon Baines Johnson
Domestic policies
1) Great Society, People against the Vietnam War
2) Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Draft, War on Poverty
Foreign Policies:
1) Vietnam: Gulf of Tonkin resolution, Operation Rolling Thunder
2) General William Westmoreland (reports on troop successes in combat in Vietnam)
37th President-Richard Milhous Nixon
Domestic Policies
1) Watergate, stagflation
2) Kent State Massacre
Foreign Policies
1) Vietnam, Vietnamization,
2) SALT II treaty, Visit to China, War Powers Act
38th President-Gerald Rudolph Ford
Domestic policies
1) W I N (Whip Inflation Now),
2) Tightened the money policy
Foreign policies
1) Helsinki Accords
2) Cease Fire in 1973 in South Vietnam, $722 million aid package for South Vietnam
39th President-James Earl Carter Jr.
Domestic Policies:
1) National Energy Act,
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Foreign Policies:
1) Iran Hostage Crisis,
2) Camp David Accords
40th President-Ronald Wilson Reagan
Domestic Policies
1) Reaganomics-supply side economics,
2) Fired the Air Traffic Controllers
Foreign Policies:
1) SDI (strategic Defense initiative)
2) INF treaty, fall of communism,
41ST President-George Herbert Walker Bush
Domestic Policies:
1) No New Taxes,
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Foreign Policies:
1) Operation Desert Storm-Gulf War, Just Cause-Invasion of Panama
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42nd President-William Jefferson Clinton
Domestic Policies:
1) Contract with America
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Foreign Policies:
1) NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
2) Bosnian conflict-ethnic cleansing (NATO)
43rd President-George Walker Bush
Domestic Policies:
1) No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
2) Economic stimulus Package, TARP payment
Foreign policies:
1) 911/war on terror,
2) Operation Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom, (wars in Iraq and Afghanistan)
44th President Barak Obama
Domestic Policies
1) Bailout of Banks, Health Care Reform
2) General Motors bailout
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Foreign Policies
1) Somali pirate incident with American ship, release of journalists from N. Korea
2) G8 & G20 summit,
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