March Flashcards

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Warren Harding

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1921-1923
Republican
- Normalcy period
- political and personal scandals
- 1st to speak on radio
- died in office
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Calvin Coolidge

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1923-1929
Republican
- pro- business
- laissez- faire administration
- Kellogg- Briand Pact
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Herbert Hoover

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1929-1933
Republican
- Great Depression strikes
- promoted attitude of rugged individualism

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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1933-1945
Democrat
- New Deal reforms
- World War II
- elected to four terms
- died in 4th
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Harry S. Truman

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1945-1953
Democrat
- Fair Deal reforms
- Cold War begins
- upset victory in 1948
- Korean War
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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1953-1961
Republican
- ended Korean War
- maintained peaceful coexistence with USSR
- established modern Republicanism
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