HIUS 222 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, UPDATED AND VERIFIED,
ALREADY GRADED A+
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd President of the U.S.; won a record four presidential elections; governed during the Great
Depression and most of WWII; New Deal Coalition
Gerald Nye
Senator of North Dakota; member of the America First Committee; chaired an investigation by a Senate
committee that claimed to produce evidence of exorbitant profiteering and tax evasion by many
corporations during the war, and it suggested that bankers had pressured Wilson to intervene in the war
so as to protect their loans abroad
Dr. Seuss
American writer, political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher and artist; author of "The Butter
Battle Book"
Monica Lewinsky
Twenty-two-year-old White House intern who had an inappropriate, sexual relationship with President
Bill Clinton
Clarence Thomas
American judge, lawyer and government official who currently serves as an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the U.S.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Beloved leader of the black Civil Rights Movement; emphasized peaceful protests and marches; used
white and police violence as propaganda to further movement for black equality
Richard Nixon
37th President of the U.S.; only president to resign from office; VP to Eisenhower; ended American
involvement in the war in Vietnam; known for Watergate scandal
Henry Kissinger
American diplomat and political scientists who served as the Secretary of State and National Security
Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford; received the Nobel
Peace Prize for negotiating ceasefire in Vietnam
Gerald Ford
38th President of the U.S.; Nixon's VP, gained office after Nixon resigned; Helsinki Accords, marked a
move toward a detente in the Cold War; Vietnam ended 9 months into his presidency
, Jimmy Carter
39th President of the U.S.; democrat, diplomat, all around nice-guy; pardoned all evaders of the
Vietnam War; established the Department of Energy and the Department of Education; Camp David
Accords, Panama Canal Treaties, etc.
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the U.S.; was a Hollywood actor and union leader; War on Drugs; economy saw
reduction of inflation and an average annual growth of real GDP; Berlin Wall fell as a result of his
presidency
Ho Chi Minh
Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam
George W. Bush
43rd President of the U.S.; Launched "War on Terror" after 9/11; war in Afghanistan and Iran War
Jerry Falwell
Televangelist and founder of Liberty University and Thomas Road Baptist Church
Betty Friedan
Author of "The Feminine Mystique"; leader of NOW, National Organization for Women
Thurgood Marshall
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.; lawyer who won Brown v. Board of Education
Jackie Robinson
First African American to play in MLB
Earl Warren
Chief Justice of the U.S.; Warren Court, outlawed segregation in public schools and transformed many
areas of American law
Adolf Hitler
Politician and leader of the Nazi Party
A. Philip Randolph
Leader in the Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement and socialist political parties;
organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleep Car Porters (first black labor union); led FDR to ban
discrimination in the military and later ended segregation in the armed services
Dwight Eisenhower
ALREADY GRADED A+
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd President of the U.S.; won a record four presidential elections; governed during the Great
Depression and most of WWII; New Deal Coalition
Gerald Nye
Senator of North Dakota; member of the America First Committee; chaired an investigation by a Senate
committee that claimed to produce evidence of exorbitant profiteering and tax evasion by many
corporations during the war, and it suggested that bankers had pressured Wilson to intervene in the war
so as to protect their loans abroad
Dr. Seuss
American writer, political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher and artist; author of "The Butter
Battle Book"
Monica Lewinsky
Twenty-two-year-old White House intern who had an inappropriate, sexual relationship with President
Bill Clinton
Clarence Thomas
American judge, lawyer and government official who currently serves as an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the U.S.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Beloved leader of the black Civil Rights Movement; emphasized peaceful protests and marches; used
white and police violence as propaganda to further movement for black equality
Richard Nixon
37th President of the U.S.; only president to resign from office; VP to Eisenhower; ended American
involvement in the war in Vietnam; known for Watergate scandal
Henry Kissinger
American diplomat and political scientists who served as the Secretary of State and National Security
Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford; received the Nobel
Peace Prize for negotiating ceasefire in Vietnam
Gerald Ford
38th President of the U.S.; Nixon's VP, gained office after Nixon resigned; Helsinki Accords, marked a
move toward a detente in the Cold War; Vietnam ended 9 months into his presidency
, Jimmy Carter
39th President of the U.S.; democrat, diplomat, all around nice-guy; pardoned all evaders of the
Vietnam War; established the Department of Energy and the Department of Education; Camp David
Accords, Panama Canal Treaties, etc.
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the U.S.; was a Hollywood actor and union leader; War on Drugs; economy saw
reduction of inflation and an average annual growth of real GDP; Berlin Wall fell as a result of his
presidency
Ho Chi Minh
Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam
George W. Bush
43rd President of the U.S.; Launched "War on Terror" after 9/11; war in Afghanistan and Iran War
Jerry Falwell
Televangelist and founder of Liberty University and Thomas Road Baptist Church
Betty Friedan
Author of "The Feminine Mystique"; leader of NOW, National Organization for Women
Thurgood Marshall
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.; lawyer who won Brown v. Board of Education
Jackie Robinson
First African American to play in MLB
Earl Warren
Chief Justice of the U.S.; Warren Court, outlawed segregation in public schools and transformed many
areas of American law
Adolf Hitler
Politician and leader of the Nazi Party
A. Philip Randolph
Leader in the Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement and socialist political parties;
organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleep Car Porters (first black labor union); led FDR to ban
discrimination in the military and later ended segregation in the armed services
Dwight Eisenhower
