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Ch. 34 and 35
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cordell Hull | American Delegate that was going to go to the London Economic Conference, which tried to organize an international attack on global depression, before Roosevelt declared we were no longer going to it; began the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act |
| Joseph Stalin | Russia; paranoid; more ruthless than Hitler; killed more than 40 million people; gulags; 5 year plan for Russia that didn’t work well; made people fear him so that no one would retaliate against him |
| Benito Mussolini | leader in Italy; wanted to make Italy a stronger country; fascist |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of the Nazi Party; Chancellor of Germany 1933 |
| Francisco Franco | Spanish dictator from the Spanish Civil War and ruled Spain up until the 1970’s. |
| Winston Churchill | Soldier, politician and finally prime minister, Winston Churchill was one of Britain's greatest 20th |
| Charles Lindbergh | Lindbergh was the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next. Lindbergh, a U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit. |
| Wendell Wilkie | was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for president in 1940; ran against FDR |
| A. Philip Randolph | civil-rights movement, the American labor movement and socialist political parties. Led March on Washington Movement. |
| Douglas MacArthur | was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. |
| Dwight Eisenhower | He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 |
| Chester Nimitz | Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy. Nimitz was the leading U.S. Navy authority on submarines |
| George Patton | was a general in the United States Army, best known for his command of the Seventh United States Army, and later the Third United States Army, in the European Theater of World War II. |
| Thomas Dewey | was the 47th Governor of New York (1943–1954). In 1944 and 1948, he was the Republican candidate for President, but lost both times. He led the liberal/moderate faction of the Republican Party. |
| Harry Truman | Dropped the bombs, became president after FDR died. |
| Albert Einstein | German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics; he was Jewish and came to America in the 1930’s |
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