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1923-1989
Presidential events
Question | Answer |
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Veto of farm legislation | McNary-Hugen bill |
Dawes Plan | Coolidge plans collect war debts |
Kellogg-Briand Pack | 62 nations "outlaw" war |
National Origins Act | Discriminates against southeastern Europeans |
Linburg flight | New York to Paris, non-stop |
Stock Market crash | spark on the great depression, October 1929 |
Reconstruction Finance Corporation | Aids business in the Great Depression |
Hawley-Smoot Tariff | Highest tariff in U.S. history |
Wikersham Commission | Study of Prohibition |
Young Plan | Hoover-Plan to collect war debts |
London Economic Conference | International approach to world wide depression |
Bank holiday | Emergency banking act |
Securities Exchange Commission | Regulates stock market |
National Recovery Administration | Blue Eagle shot down by court |
Works Progress Administration (WPA) | Harry-Hopkins Relief |
Public Works Administration (PWA) | Harold Ickes |
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | Relief for youth and conservation |
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | Electricity and conservation measures for 7 states |
Wealth Tax Act | New Deal answered by Huey Long |
Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. | Insured private savings |
Federal Commissions Comm. | Regulates radio and TV |
Social Security Act | New Deal Answers to Townsend |
Fair Labor Standards Act | Establish minimum wage |
Agricultural Adjustment Act | Destroys crops, provides |
New Deal | FDR's slogan |
Neutrality Acts | Isolationist Legislation 1937 |
Lend-Lease | Arms for Britain and USSR |
Arsenal of Democracy | Speech that give imputes to Lend-Lease |
Four Freedoms | War aims |
Atlantic Charter | FDR & Churchill meet at sea |
United Nations | 89 to 2 |
Manhattan Project | Atomic bomb |
National Security Council and CIA | foreign policy agencies |
22nd Amendment | Limit Presidential terms |
Taft-Harley Act | Provide for right to work laws |
Truman Doctrine | $400 million to Greece & Turkey |
Marshall Plan | $12.5 billion for European recovery |
Berlin Airlift | Air Cargo to West Berlin |
Point IV | Assistance to underdeveloped nations |
NATO | Free world defense shield |
Korean police action | MacArthur and Ridgeway |
"Fair Deal" | Truman's Slogan |
Containment | George Kennan |
St. Lawrence Seaway | Connects Great Lakes w/ the Atlantic |
Federal Highway Project | Largest public works project in U.S. history |
SEATO | Ike's containment - 1954 |
ANZUS Pact | Australia, New Zealand, U.S. |
"Dynamic Conservatism" | Eisenhower's slogan |
U2 incident | Francis Gary Powers |
Open Skies | Mutual survaillance |
Trade Expansion Bill | President lowers tariff rates |
Alliance for Progress | Partners with Latin countries |
The Peace Corps | Help for underdeveloped countries |
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency | New emphasis on Disarmament |
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | Bans atmospheric testing |
Initiates 24th and 26th Amendments | Starts Anti-Poll Tax and Lowered Voting Age |
Bay of Pigs | Lacked air cover |
Cuban Missile Crisis | World's first nuclear confrontation |
Moscow "hot line" | Helps prevent accidental war |
Expands space effort | National goal for a moon landing |
The New Frontier | Kennedy's slogan |
War on Poverty | Office of Economic Opportunity |
Civil Rights Acts | Strong support for Blacks |
Creation of HUD | Government assistance in housing and urban development |
Medicare | Health benefits for the elderly |
Elementary and Secondary education Acts | Massive federal aid to education |
Golf of Tonkin | Rationale for escalation in Vietnam |
Vietnam | Johnson's nemesis |
"Gun and Butter" | Expanded war and domestic spending |
24th and 25th Amendment | Anti-Poll Tax & Presidential Succession |
"The Great Society" | Johnson's Slogan |
Environmental Protection Agency established | New emphasis on the environment |
26th Amendment | Lower voting age to 18 |
Man lands on moon | Neil Armstrong |
War Powers Resolution | President reports within 48 hours |
U.S. recognizes China | Taiwan loses status |
Watergate hearings, Nixon resigns | Harold Ford becomes President |
WIN buttons | Whip Inflation Now |
Nixon pardoned | Controversial Ford decision |
Department of Health and Human Services | New Agency for Health and Welfare |
Department of Education | Education gets cabinet status |
Camp David Accords | Begin and Sadat |
Human Rights Crusade | Worldwide Propaganda campaign |
Reagan Revolution | Reduction of Federal Government |
Invasion of Grenada | Topples Marxist regime |
Bombing of Libya | Answer to Terrorism |
Tax Reform Act | Plug loopholes, lower rates |
Director of Budget resigns | David Stockman |
INF Treaty | Eliminates intermediate-range missiles worldwide |
Iran-Contra Affair | North, Pointdexter, Bush, Reagan |
HUD scandal | Influence peddling on a grand scale |
Savings and loan crisis | Bailout cost taxpayers $200-400 billion |
25% tax cuts | Helped triple the national dept |
Strategic Defense Initiative | Star Wars |