gobbets/key themes

Question 1

which 2 key events surrounded Wilsons presidency?

Answer 1

Federal reserve act (1913)
14 points - league of nations
first world war - expansion of government

Question 2

which 2 key events surrounded Harding’s presidency?

Answer 2

teapot dome scandal - corruption
isolationist FP

Question 3

what 3 key events surrounded Coolidges’ presidency?

Answer 3

economic boom of roaring 20s
laissez-faire capitalism
immigration act (1924)

Question 4

what 3 key events surrounded Hoovers’ presidency?

Answer 4

stock market crash (1929)
Smoot-Hawley Tariff - enhanced great depression
limited direct action

Question 5

which 3 key events surrounded FDR’s presidency?

Answer 5

New Deal - end of depression
second world war
Lend-Lease act

Question 6

which 4 key events surrounded Truman’s presidency?

Answer 6

expansion of FP - marshall plan, NATO, Truman doctrine
Atomic bomb dropping
Korean war

Question 7

which 3 key events surrounded eisenhower’s presidency?

Answer 7

end of Korean war
Suez crisis
little rock nine (segregation)

Question 8

which 5 key events surrounded JFK’s presidency?

Answer 8

Cuban missile crisis and Bay of Pigs
beginning of Vietnam escalations
beginning of civil rights support
escalation of the space race
affluency

Question 9

which 3 key events surrounded LBJ’s presidency?

Answer 9

civil rights act
great society - medicare
further escalation of Vietnam war

Question 10

which 4 key events surrounded Nixons presidency?

Answer 10

watergate scandal
withdrawal from Vietnam war
enviormental reforms
Detente with USSR and China

Question 11

which 3 events surrounded Ford’s presidency?

Answer 11

Pardoning of Nixon
economic stagflation
ending of Vietnam war - fall of Saigon

Question 12

which 3 key events surrounded Carter’s presidency?

Answer 12

Camp David Accords - peace in middle east
iranian hostage crisis
energy crisis

Question 13

which 4 key events surrounded Reagan’s presidency?

Answer 13

Reagannomics - tax cuts for mega wealthy
hardline approach to cold war
Iran-Contra affair
Star wars - missile defense

Question 14

which 3 key events surrounded George H.W Bush’s presidency?

Answer 14

fall of berlin wall
collapse of USSR
Gulf war

Question 15

which 4 events surrounded Clinton’s presidency?

Answer 15

NAFTA and economic globalisation
welfare reform (1996)
impeachment over Monica Lewinsky scandal
Balkans intervention