APUSH Region 4 Presidents

Faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress.

On November 22, 1963, he was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.

35th President

1961-1963

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

• Jimmy Carter

Initiated the "Great Society" social service programs; signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law; and bore the brunt of national opposition to his vast expansion of American involvement in the Vietnam War.

36th President

1963-1969

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

• Gerald Ford

• Richard Nixon

• Ronald Reagan

He focused on détente with the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, easing Cold War tensions with both countries. Withdrew the last U.S. soldiers from South Vietnam in 1973. Faced with almost certain impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, became the first American president to resign from office

37th President

1969-1974

• Richard Nixon

• George H.W. Bush

• Bill Clinton

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Jimmy Carter

Was moved to Vice President then succeeded to the presidency on the resignation of President Nixon, thereby becoming the country’s only chief executive who had not been elected either president or vice president. Controversially, he pardoned former president Nixon

38th President

1974-1977

• Gerald Ford

• Richard Nixon

• Jimmy Carter

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• George W. Bush

In foreign affairs, he pursued the Camp David Accords, the SALT II treaty, and the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. Domestically the economy struggled from stagflation. The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

39th President

1977-1981

• Jimmy Carter

• Bill Clinton

• Barack Obama

• Ronald Reagan

• Gerald Ford

The only movie actor ever to become president, he had a remarkable skill as an orator that earned him the title “the Great Communicator.” His policies have been credited with contributing to the demise of Soviet communism.

40th President

1981-1989

• Ronald Reagan

• Richard Nixon

• John F. Kennedy

• Donald Trump

• George H.W. Bush

Responded to then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait (August 1990), creating a national coalition and leading a military strike to drive Hussein out of the oil-rich country.

41st President

1989-1993

• George H.W. Bush

• George W. Bush

• Barack Obama

• Bill Clinton

• Ronald Reagan

Oversaw two terms of economic prosperity; the country's longest peacetime economic expansion.

Was impeached by the House of Representatives in 1998 following the revelation of his affair with Monica Lewinsky but was acquitted by the Senate in 1999.

42nd President

1993-2001

• Bill Clinton

• Richard Nixon

• John F. Kennedy

• Barack Obama

• Donald Trump

Initiated what he called the “war on terrorism,” portrayed as an American-led global counterterrorism campaign launched in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

43rd President

2001-2009

• George W. Bush

• George H.W. Bush

• Barack Obama

• Donald Trump

• Ronald Reagan

The first African American commander-in-chief. Awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. He oversaw the recovery of the U.S. economy (from the Great Recession of 2008–09) and the enactment of landmark health care reform (the Affordable Care Act).

44th President

2009-2017

• Barack Obama

• Donald Trump

• Bill Clinton

• Ronald Reagan

• Gerald Ford