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George Washington
American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Washington was widely admired for his strong leadership qualities and then was unanimously elected president by the Electoral College. He worked to unify rival factions in the fledgling nation. He supported Alexander Hamilton's programs to satisfy all debts, federal and state, established a permanent seat of government, implemented an effective tax system, and created a national bank. -
Abraham Lincoln
He was elected as the 16th President of the United States in 1861 and came to lead the nation during arguably its most trying years. He was assessinated tragically in 1864 -
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Permanently Outlawed Slavery
Abraham Lincoln made major decisions on Union war strategy, including a naval blockade that shut down the South's trade. As the war progressed, his complex moves toward ending slavery included the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863; Lincoln used the U.S. Army to protect escaped slaves, encouraged the border states to outlaw slavery, and pushed through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which permanently outlawed slavery. -
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Re-election
Lincoln reached out to the War Democrats and managed his own re-election campaign in the 1864 presidential election. Anticipating the war's conclusion, Lincoln pushed a moderate view of Reconstruction. But he was shot five days after the surrender of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and died the next day. -
Harry S. Truman
He was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). His presidency was a turning point in foreign affairs, as the United States engaged in an internationalist foreign policy and renounced isolationism. Truman maintained that civil rights were a moral priority, and in 1948 submitted the first comprehensive civil rights legislation and issued Executive Orders to start racial integration in the military and federal agencies. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was an American Army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During the Syrian Crisis of 1957 he approved a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion by Syria's pro-Western neighbours. His largest program was the Interstate Highway System. He promoted the establishment of strong science education via the National Defense Education Act. -
John F. Kennedy
He served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Kennedy's time in office was marked by high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 over President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was assessinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas and many groups belived that he was a victim of a conspiracy. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
He served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. With the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the country's immigration system was reformed, encouraging greater immigration from regions other than Europe. Johnson's presidency marked the peak of modern liberalism after the New Deal era. -
Richard Nixon
He was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974. Nixon ended American involvement in the war in Vietnam in 1973 and brought the American POWs home, and ended the military draft. Nixon led to diplomatic relations with China and he initiated détente and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union the same year. His administration generally transferred power from Washington D.C. to the states and began the War on Cancer. -
Gerald Ford
Gerald served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. The Presidenr Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War. Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure. One of his most controversial acts was to grant a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. -
Jimmy Carter
He served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. It is said that on his second day in office, Carter pardoned all evaders of the Vietnam War drafts. Carter stablished two new cabinet-level departments, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education, during his term as president. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. -
Ronald Wilson Reagan
American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Entering the presidency in 1981, Reagan implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", advocated tax rate reduction to spur economic growth, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, spurred the War on Drugs, and fought public sector labor. -
George H. W. Bush
politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. In 1988, Bush ran a successful campaign to succeed Reagan as President, defeating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis. Foreign policy drove the Bush presidency: military operations were conducted in Panama and the Persian Gulf; the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and the Soviet Union dissolved two years later. -
Bill Clinton
is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U.S. president since World War II, he has continually received high ratings in public opinion polls of U.S. presidents. Since leaving office, Clinton has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work. He created the William J. Clinton Foundation to address international causes. -
George W. Bush
Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. The September 11 terrorist attacks occurred eight months into Bush's first term as president. Bush responded with what became known as the Bush Doctrine: launching a "War on Terror", an international military campaign that included the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and the Iraq War in 2003. -
Barack Obama
Is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Obama had two terms in the Presidency and is one of the recent black Presidente of the United States. During his first two years in office, Obama signed many landmark bills into law.Obama left office in January 2017 with a 60% approval rating and currently resides in Washington, D.C. -
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Less War
After a lengthy debate over the national debt limit, Obama signed the Budget Control and the American Taxpayer Relief Acts. In foreign policy, Obama increased U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, reduced nuclear weapons with the United States–Russia New START treaty, and ended military involvement in the Iraq War. -
Donald Trump
He is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017. In December 2017, he signed tax reform legislation which cut rates and eliminated the Obamacare. In foreign policy, Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact and the Paris Agreement on climate change, partially reversed the Cuban Thaw, pressured North Korea over the acceleration of their missile tests and recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
