Thursday, May 20, 2010

US President and "peace-keeping"

ALL the President of US after Roosevelt has declared war on a country, or continue it.
True or not? we shall see.
From what i have complied, ONLY "Gerald Ford" didn't have any big war on-going during his time, the others have some sort of thing.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
March 4, 1933 April 12, 1945
World War II- Japan, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania.

Harry S Truman
April 12, 1945 January 20, 1953
Korean War (1950) North Korea and People Republic of China

Dwight D. Eisenhower
January 20, 1953 January 20, 1961
Lebanon crisis of 1958

John F. Kennedy
January 20, 1961 November 22, 1963
Vietnam War

Lyndon B. Johnson
November 22, 1963 January 20, 1969
Vietnam War

Richard Nixon
January 20, 1969 August 9, 1974
Vietnam War

Gerald Ford
August 9, 1974 January 20, 1977

Jimmy Carter
January 20, 1977 January 20, 1981
Multinational Force in Lebanon (1974)

Ronald Reagan
January 20, 1981 January 20, 1989
Multinational Force in Lebanon (withdraw 1984)

George H. W. Bush
January 20, 1989 January 20, 1993
Gulf War, also known as Operation Desert Storm (1991)

Bill Clinton
January 20, 1993 January 20, 2001
Bosnian War (1993)

George W. Bush
January 20, 2001 January 20, 2009
War in Afghanistan, also known as Operation Enduring Freedom. (2001)
Iraq War, also known as Operation Iraqi Freedom. (2002)
Second Liberian Civil War. (2003, Peacekeeping)
Haiti, also known as MINUSTAH. (2004, Peacekeeping)

Barack Obama
January 20, 2009 Incumbent
Continue both Iraq and Afghanistan, a.k.a. Peacekeeping.


With this list, i wonder who can deny it now. My fren who is pro-US, said there was no such thing.

1 comment:

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