| Name |
Two Identifying Facts |
| Henry Ford | didn't invent car, just improved it; sold most popular car |
| Woodrow Wilson | created Fourteen Points after WWII; his League of Nations is forerunner of United Nations |
| Al Capone | gangster(organized Crime); Scarface |
| Herbert Hoover | blamed for stock market crash; Hoovervilles |
| Jesse Owens | black olympic medalist; overturned Hitler's beliefs |
| Rudolph Valentino | silent movie actor of 20s; the sheik of the time |
| Langston Hughes | black writer of the Civil Rights Movement; spoke freely about his people's suffrage |
| Babe Ruth | great baseball player of twenties; second most career homeruns |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | wife of FDR, often called first woman president |
| Vladimir Lenin | first leader of Russia; established Russia as communist |
| Harry Truman | successor of FDR; decided to drop atomic bomb |
| Benito Mussolini | fascist leader of Italy; Mussolini is always right |
| Karl Marx | founded communism; simplified all global problems |
| Joseph Stalin | leader of Russia, made Russia communistic |
| Dwight Eisenhower | supreme commander of Allied forces on D-Day; later became president |
| Adolf Hitler | Nazi leader of Germany; Holocaust |
| Winston Churchill | prime minister of England; kept England from capture |
| George Patton | Allied tank commander; vital section of D-Day |
| Erwin Rommell | Desert Fox; almost stopped D-Day |
| Douglas Mac Arthur | commander in Pacific theater; I shall return |
| Teddy Roosevelt | president during WWI; ended war quickly |
| Calvin Coolidge | president before depression; keep cool with Coolidge |
| Warren Harding | president after depression; return to normalcy |
| Thomas Edison | invented light bulb; Wizard of Menlo Park |
| Samuel Morse | founded Morse code; first major communication |
| Rosa Parks | Civil Rights activist; wouldn't move on the bus |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Civil Rights activist; I Have A Dream |
| Thurgood Marshall | Civil Rights activist; first black Supreme Court Justice |
| Bull Connor | police chief during Civil Rights Movement; set dogs and hoses on children |
| George Wallace | governer of Alabama during Civil Rights Movement; stood in doorway of University to keep a black from enrolling |
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