Ruch American History 2nd Semester Presidents

Question 1

Ended Vietnam, visited/opened Russia and China, but was disgraced by Watergate resignation

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Richard Nixon

Question 2

Wanted a Great Society and War on Poverty but was destroyed by getting the US deeper in Vietnam

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 3

laissez-faire 20's president during the stock market crash and Great Depression beginning

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Herbert Hoover

Question 4

2nd President impeached, balanced budget & welfare reform, many military deployments

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Bill Clinton

Question 5

1st Progressive President, conservationist, busted monopolies, loved war and outdoors

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Teddy Roosevelt

Question 6

elected in 1980 to return US to the 1950's good old days, ended the Cold War with Gorbachev

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Ronald Reagan

Question 7

most progressive president, but led US into WWI, suffered stroke pushing Treaty of Versailles

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Woodrow Wilson

Question 8

current president, national healthcare, killed Osama bin Laden

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Barack Obama

Question 9

New Deal president who led US out of Great Depression and through most of WWII.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 10

50's president, ended Korean War and planned a Cold War end, but disgraced by U-2 Incident

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 11

Cold War officially ended, Berlin Wall and USSR fell, invaded Iraq to save Kuwait in 1991

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George H. W. Bush

Question 12

9/11, War on Terror, No Child Left Behind

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George W. Bush

Question 13

replaced and pardoned Nixon, but could not get re-elected due to Nixon connection

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Gerald Ford

Question 14

the most honest of all presidents and a peanut farmer, but failed because he was an outsider

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Jimmy Carter

Question 15

Bay of Pigs, Vienna Conference, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, assassinated 11/22/63

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John F. Kennedy

Question 16

TR's heir, but went laissez-faire after taking office, served as Chief Justice after

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William Howard Taft

Question 17

1st 20's president, promised return to laissez-faire "normalcy," died in office amid scandal

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Warren G. Harding

Question 18

current vice president

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Joe Biden

Question 19

finished WWII by dropping bombs, desegregated military, led US into Cold War and Korea.

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Harry S Truman

Question 20

president of the 20's economic boom, so laissez-faire he was known as "Silent..."

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Calvin Coolidge

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