U.S History Study Guide: Presidents

Which U.S President served from 1968-74?

**Richard Nixon**

Which U.S President served from 1974-76?

Gerald R. Ford

Which U.S President served from 1976-80?

Jimmy Carter

Which U.S President served from 1980-88?

Ronald Reagan

Which U.S President served from 1988-92?

George Bush Senior

Which U.S President served from 1992-2000?

Bill Clinton

Which U.S President served from 2000-08?

George Bush Jr.

Daniel _______ released the _______ _______ in 1971. 

Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers

President Nixon then created the _______. 

Plumbers

What was Watergate?

A hotel and office complex where a democratic national committee was

Who were the authors of “All The President's Men”?

Washington Post

These 2 reporters from _______ _______ _______ uncovered it.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

Fired White House Chief Council, who said the President knew about the cover-up?

John Dean

What did Alexander Butterfield reveal?

The president was taping the oval office

 In 1979, _______ American hostages were held for _______ days in _______. 

52, 444, Iran

They wanted the _______ returned, but we said no.

Shah

Our _______ helped put him in power in 1953. 

CIA

 What was Three Mile Island?

Nuclear Power Plant

In what states?

Penn State

Name the crisis

Marble Hill

Lech _______ led the _______ movement in _______

Walesa, consolidate, Poland

What was Lech’s occupation?

Electrician

Who was the pope that helped Lech?

Pope John Paul the Second

Name 3 other countries that ended that of government.

East Germany, Hunger, Romanian

Mikial _______

Gorbachev

_______ - Political openness 

glasnost

Perestroika _______

economic restructuring

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What does U.S.S.R. stand for?

Union Soviet Socialist Republics

Putin wants them back which leads to war in _______

Ukraine

The _______ wall fell in 1989.

Berlin

First female Supreme Court Justice?

Sandra Day O'Conner

First female in space?

Sally K. Ride

 First female Vice Presidential candidate?

Gerald Dean Ferraro

Space shuttle disaster?

Challenger

Who won Olympic Gold in hockey in 1980?

USA

9/11 year?

2001

Where did the 4 hijacked planes land/crash?

2 in the twin powers, third one in the Pentagon, fourth in a field near Shanksville, PA

Who was responsible for it?

 Osama Bin Laden 

How many were pulled out alive from the rubble?

20

This led to the creation of _______ security.

Homeland