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Social Studies Preparation Work 2004

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