1. 1950s – 1980s Presidential Administrations Key Events

2. FOREIGN POLICY - Containment TRUMAN, 1945-1953 George Kennan, Soviet expert Truman Doctrine Turkey, Greece Marshall Plan (Western Europe) Japan occupied/built up Berlin Airlift NATO Fall of China Korean War MacArthur fired Stalemate Integrates military HUAC Alger Hiss EISENHOWER, 1953-1961 “New Look” in containment Dulles (Sec. of State) Massive Retaliation & Brinkmanship Ends Korean War Threat of nukes Stalin dead – Khrushchev wants end Vietnam – domino theory Sputnik – Space Race CIA Coups Iran Guatemala Cuba – planned Bay of Pigs Suez Canal Eisenhower Doctrine – Middle East McCarthyism, Rosenbergs

3. JFK Domestic Credits victory to tv debate Mostly ideas Civil Rights (finally… after B’ham march) Proposes Civil Rights Act SPACE – lots of $ Apollo 11 Moon landing 1969 Foreign Peace Corps Alliance for Progress (Latin America) Bay of Pigs, Cuba Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

4. Lyndon B. Johnson Domestic Great Society – war on Poverty Civil Rights Act ’64 & ’68 (Fair Housing) Voting Rights Act ’65 Medicare; Medicaid Immigration Reform Act No more quotas Hispanics / Asians Activist Judicial reforms – Miranda; Gideon; Mapp Foreign VIETNAM Gulf of Tonkin Resolution TET Offensive Turning Point Creditability Gap LBJ chooses not to run for reelection

5. Nixon Domestic Southern Strategy ‘68 New Federalism Greenest P – EPA, Clean Air, Clean Water, Earth Day Inflation – Stagflation Major problems with anti-war protesting WATERGATE Scandal (1972 Election) U.S. v. Nixon (Executive Privilege) Resignation Foreign Détente Triangular, Ping Pong Shuttle Diplomacy Henry Kissinger Secret Invasion of Cambodia Vietnam Peace Accords, 1973 Visits to China, Soviet Union SALT Yom Kippur War – aid to Israel Oil Embargo / Crisis

6. Ford / Carter FORD Pardons Nixon S. Vietnam falls Domino Theory: Laos & Cambodia also fall CARTER Amnesty to draft dodgers (Vietnam) 3 mile island meltdown Middle East Peace Accords Iranian Hostage Crisis Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Boycott Olympics Panama Canal – returned to Panama

7. REAGAN