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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt aqcuired the land that was to become the Panama Canal Zone and by 1904 the canal was finished. -
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Woodrow Wilson
Wilson decided to enter war on April 2, 1917 after rejecting the idea in 1915. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FDR managed and prepared America before entering what he knew would be an inevitable war to be involved in. He started a number of preparations in 1940. -
Harry S. Truman
Truman responded to the Soviet threat with the decision to fight Korea without a Congressional declaration of war. Upon hearing of the attacks into South Korea on June 25, Truman took action the very next day by directing General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, commander of the United States occupation forces in Japan, to insure the safe evacuation of United States civilians and to supply weapons and ammunition to South Korea. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
After assuming the presidency in 1953, Eisenhower used the CIA and brinkmanship to contain Communism, which he feared if not stopped quickly and effectively would take over the world. -
Richard Nixon
In 1969, Nixon authorized the secret bombing of Cambodia because he believed North Vietnam was transporting troops through Cambodia to South Vietnam. He hoped that bombing this supply route would weaken the enemy.
