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WGU-20thCen.Amer.Pre
WGU-20th century American Presidents-Jen
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| FDR's Alphabet Soup | A "soup" of agencies i.e. us securites and exchange commission to oversee stocks, a reform of bank system of insurance for during Great.Dep.- most successful form of relief for unemployed americans, ie conserv.corps, civilworks admin. & emerg.relif admin. |
| Woodrow Wilson | advocate for league of nations |
| Theodore Roosevelt | -correct business evils-created the Dept. of Commerce and Labor that had right to investigate businesses engaged in interstate commerce-also, called a "square deal" for both labor and capitol, 1st to threaten seizure of major industry |
| Harry Truman | |
| John F. Kennedy | 1st goal>build up armed forces. Also Cuban Missile Crisis took place under his presidency. |
| Lyndon Johnson | Fed. aid to ed., medicare and medicaid, civil rights act of 1964&5. Afri.Amer. could attend integrated school, public facilities, and right to vote. & Inherited civil war in S.Vietnam and Amer. commitment to Diem's regime in Saigon trom Eisen. & Kennedy. |
| Ronald Raegan | Made federal spending first target. Developed a Strategic Defense Initiative |
| Richard Nixon | 1st pres. to adopt affirmative action, acceptance speech>less gov't, balanced budget, family values, peace thru greater military spending. Charm & belief that we could regain self confidence by reaffirming basic ideals appealed at home & abroad |
| league of nations | founded as a result of treaty of versailles-goals>Rights of Man i.e. non whites, women, soldiers, disarmament, prevent war, settle disputes by negotiations, diplomacy & improving quality of life. In end, proved incapable of preventing agression |
| Cuban missile crisis | 1962-US and Soviet Union came close to nuclear war when Pres. Kennedy insisted that Nikita Khrushchev remove 42 missiles he had secretly deployed in Cuba. Eventually did so war was averted, and crisis ended. |
| flexible response | Kennedy admin. rejected the Eisenhower strategy of massive retaliation in favor of flexible respnse, which emphasized the use of conventional as well as nuclear weapons in meeting threats to American security. |
| detente | President Nixon and Kissinger pursued a policy of detente, "relaxation of tension", w/soviet union as way to lessen the possibility of nuclear war in 1970's. |
| Strategic Defense Initiative SDI | "Star Wars" Pres. Reagan's SDI proposed the construction of an elaborate computer-controlled, antimissile defense system capable of destroying enemy missiles in outer space. |
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