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1.2 Presidency from Roosevelt to Reagan
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- 1What has war increased at the expense of Congress? What do historians call this?Presidential power
Imperial Presidency - 2Who was president from 1933 to 1945? What was he?Franklin D Roosevelt
Democrat - 3What did he lead America during?The Depression of the 1930's
Most of WW2 - 4What did he expand greatly? How many times was he elected?Presidential power
Four times - 5Who was president from 1945-1953? What was he?Harry S Truman
Democrat - 6Who was president from 1953 - 1961? What was he?Dwight D Eisenhower
Republican - 7What did he do?Led Allies to victory in WW2 becoming a hero
- 8What did he arrange?A truce that ended the Korean War in 1953
- 9What meetings did he hold after Stalin's death? Who with?"Summit meetings"
New Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev - 10Who was president from 1961 to 1963? What was he?John F Kennedy
Democrat - 11What did he do in 1960?Narrowly defeated Vice-President Richard Nixon
- 12What did he accuse republicans of? What did he promise?Letting US fall behind Russian technology
To put a man on the moon - 13What two things did he face crises over during the Cold War?Building of Berlin Wall
Soviet missiles in Cuba - 14What did he do with Vietnam?Increased American involvement
- 15What did he support? When was he assassinated?Civil rights movement
Dallas in November 1963 - 16Who was president from 1963-1969? What was he?Lyndon B Johnson
Democrat - 17What did he hugely increase? What did this do?American involvement in Vietnam
Diverted resources away from his social programmes, damaging the American economy - 18What did he do in 1968?Decided not to contest the election for President
- 19Who was president from 1969-1974? What was he?Richard M Nixon
Republican - 20What did slowly end? What did he encourage?US involvement in Vietnam
A détente with Soviets by visiting Moscow - 21How did he try to improve economy?Froze wages and devaluing the dollar
- 22What forced him to resign?The Watergate break-in
- 23Who was president from 1974-1977? What was he?Gerard Ford
Republican - 24What did he officially end? What did he continue?The Vietnam war
The détente with Soviet Union - 25What did he fail to do? How was his reputation damaged?Fix economic problems like unemployment
Communists took over in South Vietnam - 26Who was president from 1977 to 1981? What was he?Jimmy Carter
Democrat - 27What damaged his reputation?A second oil crisis in 1979 to 1980
- 28What did he negotiate?Peace between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
- 29What did he negotiate with Soviet Union?A disarmament treaty
- 30Who was president from 1981 to 1989? What was he?Ronald Reagan
Republican - 31What age did Reagan become president?69
- 32What did his economic policies include?Large tax cuts for the rich and increased military spending
- 33What fell from mid-1980's?Inflation
- 34What did he end? What did he call it?The détente with the Soviet Union
An "evil empire" - 35What did he propose building?A "star wars" missile system to protect from attack
- 36Who came to power in Soviet Union? What did Reagan do?A reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev
Negotiated with him - 37What did this contribute to?Ending of communist rule in Europe in 1989
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