| Name |
 |
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| Two Identifying Facts |
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|
| 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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