Modern Era Presidents
What year was J.F.K assassinated?
1963
What ruined Jimmy Carters Chances of reelection?
A stagnant economy, high gas prices and the Iranian hostage crisis.
What was War on Poverty designed to do?
Break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs.
What did Jimmy Carter try to do that was a highlight of his presidency?
Bring peace to the Middle East
What did Reaganomics include?
Budget cuts, tax cuts, and increased defense spending.
What were the names of the two rights acts he signed into law ?
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The last Soviet Union leader act up policies allowing freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and other reforms, which put the U.S.S.R. on a path to democratic governments.
Collapse of Soviet Union
What led to the hurting of lower income Americans and a recession?
Cutting Social Welfare Budgets
What did Reagan want to do to the federal government?
Decrease the size and role of the federal government
How long did J.F.K presidency last?
From 1961 to 1963
Who was the 41st President of the United States?
George H.W. Bush
This vice president succeeded Nixon, whose two-year presidency was damaged by his connection to Nixon.
Gerald Ford
LBJ created initiatives aimed at not only relieving the symptoms of poverty, but to cure it, and above all, to prevent it.
Headstart
What were some of the things Reagan was known for?
Increasing defense spending leading to the end of the cold war, he was involved in the Iran-Contra Scandal, and he obtained legislation to stimulate economic growth, curb inflation and increase employment.
How long did the Iranian Hostage Crisis last?
It lasted 444 days, until the captives were released after the election of Ronald Reagan as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson became president after whose assassination?
J.F.K
Who was the 39th President of the United States?
Jimmy Carter
Who was the 35th President of the United States?
John F. Kennedy
Which two candidates were the first ones ever seen on TV in the 1960 national election campaign?
Kennedy & Nixon
Who authorized Operation Rolling Thunder?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Who created the Great Society programs?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Who was the 36th President of the United States?
Lyndon B. Johnson
President Nixon visited this country in 1971 to seek scientific, cultural and trade agreements and to take advantage of a 10-year standoff between the country and the Soviet Union.
Opening on China
Gerald Ford did what to any crimes Nixon may have committed?
Pardoned
What was the U.S. involved in during George H.W. time in office?
Persian Gulf War
In this election, Barack Obama defeated John McCain and became the 1st African American to serve as President
Presidential Election of 2008
What was the nickname of Reagan's economic policy?
Reaganomics
Who was the 40th President of the United States?
Ronald Reagan
What was Operation Rolling Thunder?
Sustained bombing on North Vietnam.
What did J.F.K handle during his presidency?
The growing CRM, the Bay of Pigs, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
What was the purpose of LBJ's Great Society programs?
To give all Americans a better standard of living regardless of their background.
This in 1973 is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress after the disaster of the Vietnam War.
War Powers Act
This program was apart of LBJ's "Great Society" and was launched by the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1965.
War on Poverty
How did the Iranian Hostage Crisis start?
When Carter let the shah enter the U.S. for medical treatment and angry Iranian revolutionaries invaded the U.S. embassy and took 52 American captive.