1. POST REGAN PRESIDENTS AND REVIEW

2. REVIEW - PRESIDENTS Founding Fathers 1.1788-1796 2.1796-1800 3.1800-08 4.1808-16 5.1816-24

3. REVIEW - PRESIDENTS Manifest Destiny 6.1824-28 7.1828-36 8.1836-40 9.1841 10.1841-44 11.1844-48 12.1848-50 13.1850-52 14.1852-56 15.1856-60

4. REVIEW - PRESIDENTS Civil War, Reconstruction, Gilded Age 16.1860-65 17.1865-68 18.1868-76 19.1876-1880 20.1880-81 21.1881-84 22.1884-88 23.1888-1892 24.1892-96 25.1896-1901

5. REVIEW - PRESIDENTS Turn of the Century, Imperialism, World War, Progressivism, Depression, and New Deal 26.1901-1908 27.1908-1912 28.1912-20 29.1920-23 30.1923-28 31.1928-32 32.1932-45

6. REVIEW - PRESIDENTS World War II, Cold War, and Civil Rights 33.1945-1952 34.1952-60 35.1960-63 36.1963-68 37.1968-74 38.1974-76 39.1976-80 40.1980-88 41.1988-92

7. REVIEW - PRESIDENTS Globalization and Superpower 42.1992-2000 43.2000-08 44.2008-2016

8. 1948 ELECTION Harry Truman (D) defeats Thomas E. Dewey (R) and J. Strom Thurmond (INDP) Truman gets 303 Electoral Votes, Dewey 189, Thurmond 39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW2ae0Fznwg Issues: 22 nd Amendment – limiting presidential terms Division among northern and southern Democrats Berlin Airlift Civil War in China What to do with Europe and Korea?

9. 1988 ELECTION George H. W. Bush (R) defeats Michael Dukakis (D) Bush gets 426 Electoral Votes, Dukakis 111 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEPIK0U1iw4 Issues: Economic improvement (or morale) under Reagan helps Bush win Fall of Berlin Wall and Communism Tiananmen Square Incident Stock Market Crash of 1987

10. 1992 ELECTION William (Bill) Clinton (D) defeats George H.W. Bush and Ross Perot Clinton wins 370 Electoral Votes, Bush 168, Perot 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZgQMPefsw Issues: Persian Gulf War against Iraq Bush raising taxes after promising not to After effects of recession

11. 1996 ELECTION Bill Clinton defeats Robert (Bob) Dole (R) Clinton wins 379 Electoral Votes, Dole 159 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDi7je0s4ag Issues: Dotcom Economic Boom Widespread Internet Oklahoma City Bombing Waco standoff

12. 2000 ELECTION George W. Bush (R) defeats Albert Gore Jr. (D) and Ralph Nader (Green) Bush wins 271 Electoral Votes, Gore 266 Bush – son of 41 st President, Gore – Clinton’s VP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWETjjTniWo Issues: Florida’s Electoral Votes Closest Election since 1876 Gore won popular vote but lost electoral vote Impeachment charges against Clinton Improved economy, government surplus

13. 2004 ELECTION George W. Bush defeats John Kerry (D) Bush wins 286 Electoral Votes, Kerry wins 251, John Edwards gets 1 accidental vote from Minnesota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cObZgMBCde8 Issues: Debate over the electoral votes in Ohio, Kerry concedes state Bush and Kerry set record for most votes for any candidate in history War on Terrorism 9/11 Effects

14. 2008 ELECTION Barack Obama (D) defeats John McCain (R) Obama wins 365 Electoral Votes, McCain 173 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSCc6f9nhOA Issues: 9 states change political allegiance and vote for Obama Obama sets record for most votes in history with 69.45 million Oncoming Great Recession Bailouts of business by government Iraq War War on Terrorism

15. 2012 ELECTION Barack Obama defeats W. Mitt Romney (R) Obama wins 332 Electoral Votes, Romney 206 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INpVG7XkD4I Issues: Reapportionment of Electoral Votes (8 states gain votes, 10 states lose votes after census) Great Recession Job Growth Killing of Osama bin Laden Removal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan

16. ASSIGNMENT The best way to look at 1988 to today is to figure out how you would tell it Billy Joel Born in 1949 In 1989, a mid-life crisis combined with a conversation led to a reflection Joel’s reflections led to the song, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” 119 different terms in the song Described as a “term paper written the night before it was due” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6os_ieY0m8 Your assignment is to write 2 more verses, one for the 1990s and one for the 2000s to finish the song Due next class