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USH Regents Prep – General KnowledgeGuide
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Correct Answer ✅32nd US President
- He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the
Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most
of WWII
Richard Nixon - Correct Answer ✅1968 and 1972;
Republican; Vietnam: advocated "Vietnamization" (replace US
troops with Vietnamese), but also bombed Cambodia/Laos,
created a "credibility gap," Paris Peace Accords ended direct
US involvement; economy-took US off gold standard
(currency valued by strength of economy); created the
Environmental Protection Agency, was president during first
moon landing; SALT I and new policy of detente between US
and Soviet Union; Watergate scandal: became first and only
president to resign
Woodrow Wilson - Correct Answer ✅President of the United
States (1913-1921) - major policies include: 14 points of
peace, US declaration of war in World War 1, unable to
persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or
join the League of Nations.
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Theodore Roosevelt - Correct Answer ✅26th president,
known for: conservationism, trust-busting, safe food
regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal
JFK - Correct Answer ✅1961-1963, Democrat, both parties
had the platform of civil rights planks and a national health
program, participated in the Space Race with Soviet Union,
Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs Invasion, assassinated
LBJ's Great Society - Correct Answer ✅goals = elimination
of poverty - failed because of Vietnam war and radical
injustice; new major spending programs - education and
Vietnam war; easier transportation; medical care
LBJ and Vietnam - Correct Answer ✅The Gulf of Tonkin
incident was widely believed to be staged, giving LBJ bad PR
over Vietnam from the beginning. He sent large amounts of
US troops to Vietnam because he did not want to be seen as
going too soft on communism. He is also criticized for his
"blank check" given to him by congress, allowing him to do
almost whatever he wanted in Vietnam. The killing of
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