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1923-1989
Presidential events
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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