Prime Ministers & Presidents Flashcards
List the 10 Presidents of the United States from 1944 - 1993?
Roosevelt Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson Nixon Ford Carter Reagan Bush
List the 3 Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom from 1944 - 1957?
Churchill
Attlee
Churchill (second run)
Eden
What was Roosevelt well known for?
Leading the USA through the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Which war did Truman lead the USA through?
Korean War (1950-53)
How many years was JFK (Kennedy) in office for?
2 years (1961-63)
What was JFK known for seeing through as President?
Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The USA and the USSR hovered on the brink of nuclear war.
Who replaced JFK as President in 1963?
Lyndon B. Johnson
What did Johnson do that was widely regarded as an unpopular decision?
Involving the USA in the Vietnam war.
Which war did Richard Nixon help end (1975)?
Vietnam war
Who was President when the USSR collapsed and the Cold War came to an end?
George Bush
What was Churchill famous for doing in 1946, and how was this perceived by the USSR?
Delivering the Iron Curtain speech - Stalin saw this as a British-American threat to the USSR’s security and so he issued a response.
Who was Prime Minister at the end of the Cold War?
Margaret Thatcher
