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| Woodrow Wilson | Moral Diplomacy (got US involved with Mexico), 14 Points, Came up with idea for League of Nations after WWI |
| William Howard Taft | Dollar Diplomacy (using money to invest in foreign countries, especially in Latin America) |
| Theodore Roosevelt | "Carry a big stick and you will go far"...and he loved his "Great White Fleet" |
| William McKinley | After the U.S.S. Maine was sunk in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, he asked Congress to declare war on Spain, thus the Spanish-American War (1898) occurred. |
| John F. Kennedy | President who initiated the Space Race to the Moon |
| Lyndon Johnson | This president of the 1960s most escalated the war in Vietnam |
| Richard Nixon | This president expanded the Vietnam War into Laos and Cambodia (while he claimed to be bringing the war to an end...The war eventually did end during his presidency though) |
| Ronald Reagan | This president told Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" and thus the Berlin Wall and eventually the Soviet Union collapsed. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | This 5-Star General and 1950s president came in just in time to end the Korean War. |
| Harry S. Truman | This former VP entered the presidency in 1945 and had to make the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan to end the war in the Pacific during WWII. |
| Jimmy Carter | This president arranged the Camp David Accords to make a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. |
| James Monroe | This early 19th century president announced that the America was closed to colonization. |
| George Washington | This early president announced a policy of neutrality in dealing with France and Britain. His cabinet members (Hamilton and Jefferson) fought bitterly over who the young country should side with. |
| Thomas Jefferson | As Secretary of State, he favored an alliance with France over England. As president, in an attempt to gain control of the Mississippi River and an important port, he facilitated the purchase of a large territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the US. |
| John Adams | This early president considered his actions to keep the US out of war with France to be his greatest achievement. |
| James K. Polk | A believer in Manifest Destiny, this president expanded the US all the way to the Pacific Ocean by acquiring permanently part of Oregon Country. During his presidency, the US also engaged in war with Mexico (1846-1848).. |
| Andrew Jackson | He favored Indian Removal policies and even ignored a court order from John Marshall which had favored the Cherokee's right to exist in Georgia. |
