GERALD 
​FORD

MICHIGAN
​​​​(POTUS 1974-1977)​
  • only president to never be elected to the position
  • popularity drops after he pardons Richard Nixon for Watergate​

JIMMY 
​CARTER

GEORGIA
​​​​(POTUS 1977-1981)​
  • criticized for his return of the Panama Canal Zone
  • last year in office was marked by the takeover of the American embassy in Iran, fuel shortages, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

AYATOLLAH 
​KHOMEINI

IRAN
​​​​(1902-1989)
  • Shiite religious leader of Iran who led the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and ordered the invasion of the US Embassy.

RONALD REAGAN

CALIFORNIA
​​​​(POTUS 1981-1989)​
  • helped lead a resurgence of conservatism in American politics
  • created the Strategic Defense Initiative nicknamed "Star Wars".
  • meetings with Gorbachev were the first steps to ending the Cold War.
  • took responsibility for the Iran-Contra Affair which traded hostages for arms.

SANDRA DAY 
O'CONNOR

ARIZONA
(o. 1981-2006)
  • first female Supreme Court Justice

MIKHAIL 
​GORBACHEV

SOVIET UNION
​​​​(1985-1991)
  • Soviet leader whose domestic policy of glasnost and perestroika lead to major reforms that helped weaken communism and lead to the fall of the Soviet Union.
  • foreign policy and meetings with Reagan helped bring an end to the Cold War.

GEORGE H.W.  BUSH

TEXAS
​​​​(POTUS 1989-1993)​
  • president during the end of the Cold War, desolation of the Soviet Union and the Gulf War

BILL CILNTON

ARKANSAS
​​​​(POTUS 1993-2001)​
  • passed NAFTA trade deal.
  • 2nd president to be impeached after Monica Lewinsky scandal; later acquitted of charges.
  • cut spending, lowered taxes, decreased national debt and balanced the budget in the 2nd largest/longest economic growth in US history.

GEORGE W.  BUSH

TEXAS
​​​​(POTUS 2001-2009)​
  • president during 9/11 terrorist attack beginning the War on Terror and the passing of the Patriot Act.
  • labels Iraq, Iran, and the North Korea as the "axis of evil"
  • conducted a preemptive attack starting the Iraq War.
  • popularity drops in his last year due to the beginnings of the Great Recession.

OSAMA BIN LADEN

AFGHANISTAN
​​​(1957-2011)
  • terrorist leader of al-Qaeda held responsible for attacks of 9/11 and other terrorist attacks.

BARAK OBAMA

ILLINOIS
​​​​(POTUS 2009-2017)​
  • 1st African-American president of the US.
  • approved the Wall Street bailout preventing US economic collapse.
  • passes the Affordable Care Act nicknamed Obamacare.

DONALD TRUMP

NEW YORK
​​​​(POTUS 2017-)​
  • re-energizes populism/nationalism in America
  • 3rd president to be impeached after allegations of pressuring a foreign government to interfere on Trump's behalf in the 2020 election; later acquitted of charges.