1. 20th Century American Presidents

2. Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 Republican “Trust Buster Teddy”
1903 payment for Panama Canal Zone
1904 Roosevelt Corollary
1906 Platt Amendment gives US military control of Cuba
Panic of 1907
1907 Oklahoma as 46th state
1912 nominated by Bull Moose Party

3. William Taft 1909-1913 Republican
th Amendment to collect income tax
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burns killing 146 women
1911 Standard Oil Trust dissolved by court
1912 NM & AZ as 47th & 48th states
1912 wins Republican nomination instead of TR

4. Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 Democrat
th Amendment – popular election of senators
1913 Federal Reserve Act
1914 Panama Canal opens
1914 Clayton Antitrust
1915 Lusitania
1916 occupation of Dominican Republic

5. Wilson (continued) 1917 Zimmerman Telegram
April declaration of war on Germany
th Amendment – prohibition of alcohol
Jan 1918 Wilson’s 14 Points
Jan 1919 Paris Peace Conference
th Amendment – female suffrage
1919 Volstead Act (despite Wilson’s veto)
1920 Nobel Peace Prize

6. Warren G Harding 1921-1923 Republican
1921 Sheppard Towner Act for prenatal care
1923 died of pneumonia and heart attack

7. Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 Republican 1924 Japanese immigrants banned
1924 Dawes Plan structures Ger. reparations after war
1925 Scopes Trial
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact outlaws war to settle disputes (signed 15 nations)

8. Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 Republican 1929 Black Thursday & Tuesday
1931 Star Spangled Banner official anthem
1931 conviction of Al Capone

9. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 Democrat
1933 New Deal restores economic confidence
1933 prohibition ends
1935 Social Security Act
1939 Neutrality Act
1941 Lend-Lease Act
1941 Pearl Harbor

10. FDR Continued Dec 8 1941 declaration of war 1942 Japanese removal
1942 Battle of Midway
1944 D-Day
1945 Yalta Conference
1945 Iwo Jima & Okinawa
April dies in office

11. Harry S Truman 1945-1953 Democrat Aug 6 1945 Hiroshima Aug 9 Nagasaki
1947 Truman Doctrine
1947 Marshall Plan
1948 US recognizes Israel
1948 Berlin Blockade
1950 McCarthy speech
1950 Korean War under General McArthur

12. Dwight D Eisenhower 1953-1961 (Ike) Republican
1954 Vietminh take Dien Bien Phu
1954 Brown v Topeka
1954 Geneva Accords
1955 Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957 Eisenhower Doctrine
1957 Little Rock Nine
1959 Hawaii 50th state
1960 U2 plane shot down

13. John F Kennedy 1961-1963 Democrat 1961 Peace Corps 1961 Bay of Pigs
1962 first American in space
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 March on Washington
1963 nuclear test ban treaty
1963 S Vietnam president Diem assassinated
1963 JFK assassination

14. Lyndon B Johnson 1963-1969 Democrat 1964 the Great Society
1964/8 Civil Rights Acts
1964 Gulf of Tonkin Res.
1965 Malcolm X Assassination
1965 Watts Riot
1968 Tet Offensive & My Lai Massacre
1968 King assassination

15. Richard Nixon 1969-1974 Republican
1969 plan to withdraw troops from Vietnam
1972 visit to China
1972 Watergate
1973 Paris Peace Accords – Vietnam
1973 admits to Watergate
July 1974 articles of impeachment so Nixon resigns