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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| served in spanish-american war/led rough riders | t. roosevelt |
| set aside land for national parks | t. roosevelt |
| responsible for panama canal | t. roosevelt |
| 6 kids in whitehouse | t. roosevelt |
| had phd in law | wilson |
| former pres.of princeton | wilson |
| won nobel peace prize for league of nations | wilson |
| pres. during WWI | wilson |
| Quaker | hoover |
| orphan at 8 Raised by aunt/uncle | hoover |
| becamemillionaire at age 40 | hoover |
| served during great depression | hoover |
| didn't accept salary -gave money to feed hungry worldwide | hoover |
| 4 terms | fdr |
| polio at 39;served in wheelchair | fdr |
| income tax and soial security | fdr |
| japan attacked pearl;arbor declared war on US WWII | fdr |
| died in office (1945) | fdr |
| dropped atomic bomb WWII | TRUMAN |
| created department of defense | truman |
| NATO SIGNED BY 12 NATIONS | TRUMAN |
| 22nd amendment(limited to pres. to 2 terms) | truman |
| puerto rico becomes US commonwealth | truman |
| 1st to serve with all 50 states | eisenhower |
| alaska and hawaii become last 2 states | eisenhower |
| avid golfer and former college football play | eisenhower |
| military leader for most of his life but worked hard for peace | eisenhower |
| 5 star general | eisenhower |
| interstate highway system created | eisenhower |
| supreme court declared racial segregation in schools illegal | eisenhower |
| NASA established | eisenhower |
| youngest pres. elected (43) | jfk |
| 1 of 9 kids (wealthy Roman catholic family) | jfk |
| accepted no salary | jfk |
| sponsored peace corps and space initiative to land on the moon | jfk |
| test ban treaty signed banning nuclear testing in earth's atmospher | jfk |
| bay of pigs incident with cuba | jfk |
| assasinated in dallas,texas 1963 | jfk |
| supreme court declared public pryaer in schools unconstitutional | jfk |
| sworn in on plane after jfk killed | lbj |
| support civil rights movement | lbj |
| civil rights act signed into law | lbj |
| 1st pres. to appoint black cabbinet member | lbj |
| anti-poverty legislation | lbj |
| medicare bill | lbj |
| got US in vietnam war | lbj |
| astronauts land on the moon | nixon |
| took troops out of vietnam | nixon |
| watergate scandal | nixon |
| fbi investigate-vp resigned-replaced by ford | nixon |
| reigned in disgrace-pardoned by pres. ford | nixon |
| equal pay for women | nixon |
| never elected | ford |
| wife had dependency problem | ford |
| only vp to be pres.w/o death | ford |
| US celebrated bicentinal | ford |
| 1st pres. born in hospital | carter |
| peanut farmer from ga | carter |
| comanded sub in WWII | carter |
| supported habitat for humanity | carter |
| oldest pres. elected | reagan |
| former actor-gov. of CA | reagan |
| only pres. divorced | reagan |
| ___ganomics-cut taxes but cut spending for welfare and unemployement | reagan |
| signed nuclear missile treaty with soviet leader | reagan |
| assasination attempt by hinkley jr. | reagan |
| captain of yale baseball and soccer | bush sr. |
| chairman rep. national committee-requested nixon resigned | bush sr. |
| pilot in navy | bush sr. |
| served in cia | bush sr. |
| us forces invade panama,take gen. noregia/later tried and found for drug trafficing | bush sr. |
| 2nd father son pres. | bush sr. |
| exxon valdez-largest oil spill ever | bush sr. |
| desert storm | bush sr. |
| germany opens berlin wall | bush sr. |
| rhodes scholar | clinton |
| wife was ny senator | clinton |
| impeached by house but saved by senate | clinton |
| cut federal defecit and created new jobs | clinton |
| NAFTA passed by congress | clinton |
| 1st democrat since fdr to get 2 terms | clinton |
| repub. took house and senate for 1st time in 40 years | clinton |
| 2nd fatherson pres. | bush jr. |
| yale grad-master in bus. at harvard | bush jr. |
| served in national guard during vietnam war flew f102 | bush jr. |
| questions about getting out early | bush jr. |
| 2nd term election had to be decided by supreme court | bush jr. |