U.S History Study Guide: Presidents

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Which U.S President served from 1968-74?
**Richard Nixon**
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Which U.S President served from 1974-76?
Gerald R. Ford
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Which U.S President served from 1976-80?
Jimmy Carter
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Which U.S President served from 1980-88?
Ronald Reagan
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Which U.S President served from 1988-92?
George Bush Senior
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Which U.S President served from 1992-2000?
Bill Clinton
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Which U.S President served from 2000-08?
George Bush Jr.
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Daniel _______ released the _______ _______ in 1971. 
Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers
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President Nixon then created the _______. 
Plumbers
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What was Watergate?
A hotel and office complex where a democratic national committee was
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Who were the authors of “All The President's Men”?
Washington Post
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These 2 reporters from _______ _______ _______ uncovered it.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
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Fired White House Chief Council, who said the President knew about the cover-up?
John Dean
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What did Alexander Butterfield reveal?
The president was taping the oval office
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 In 1979, _______ American hostages were held for _______ days in _______. 
52, 444, Iran
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They wanted the _______ returned, but we said no.
Shah
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Our _______ helped put him in power in 1953. 
CIA
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 What was Three Mile Island?
Nuclear Power Plant
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In what states?
Penn State
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Name the crisis
Marble Hill
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Lech _______ led the _______ movement in _______
Walesa, consolidate, Poland
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What was Lech’s occupation?
Electrician
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Who was the pope that helped Lech?
Pope John Paul the Second
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Name 3 other countries that ended that of government.
East Germany, Hunger, Romanian
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Mikial _______
Gorbachev
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_______ - Political openness 
glasnost
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Perestroika _______
economic restructuring
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What does U.S.S.R. stand for?
Union Soviet Socialist Republics
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Putin wants them back which leads to war in _______
Ukraine
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The _______ wall fell in 1989.
Berlin
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First female Supreme Court Justice?
Sandra Day O'Conner
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First female in space?
Sally K. Ride
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 First female Vice Presidential candidate?
Gerald Dean Ferraro
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Space shuttle disaster?
Challenger
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Who won Olympic Gold in hockey in 1980?
USA
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9/11 year?
2001
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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
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Who was responsible for it?
 Osama Bin Laden 
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How many were pulled out alive from the rubble?
20
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This led to the creation of _______ security.
Homeland