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BACK WALL PEOPLE
NAME & DESCRIPTION
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| thurgood marshall | - first african american is supreme court - brown vs. board of ed. - from baltimore |
| fess parker | -disneys davy crockett -liked playing a frontiesman - daniel boone |
| lyndon baines johnson (LBJ) | -1968 president during Vietnam -mentioned in musical Hair -36th president -committed us to vietnam |
| mikhail gorbachev | - last soviet premiere - blamed by the public for knocking down the burlin wal and fall of soviet Union |
| queen elizabeth II | -current queen of england (UK) -reigning british monarch -60 years reign |
| mary martin | -1st women to play peter pan on TV -also orginial maria in sound of music |
| Golda meir | -born in uccraine, jew -raised in milwakee -priminster of isreal for Yom Kappur war |
| eva peron | -"avita" musical about her -madonna played her -wife of argentina dictator |
| ayatollah khomeini | -real name is ruhollah -ayatollah means spirtual sheite leader -leader of iran -led rebellion against sha |
| mother teresa | -albanion -most famous for ministering to the poor of Calcuda -applied for sainthood -won nobel prize |
| joseph stalin | -one of the most hated dictators in WWII -killed 5,6 million russians(burned crops, surrounded) -wiped out the leadership to secure his power |
| mickey mantle | -one of three famous baseball players in picture -bad knee yankees -liver transplant |
| joe dimaggio | yankee baseball - longest hitting streak of his time -marilyn monroe (rose on grave) |
| ted williams | -red sox - last guy to hit 400 |
| benito mussolini | - italian dictator - thought he was the next roman emperor - started the fascists govt group -hung with mistress |
| pablo picasso | -eubist painter - blue period rose period -lived in france, spanish -money & women |
| barbara steisand | -singer, actor, director -made famous by Funny Girl -best actress and song academy awards |
| gloria steinem | -founded Ms. magazine -womens liberationist -job at playboy to write an exposure -breast cancer |
| ernesto che guervara | - represents a revolutionary man -put on posters -executed in bolivia -motorcycle trip |
| franz ferdinand | -crowned prince of austria - wife sophie - started a war with russia and serbia that effected the start of the 1st world war - assassinated by Garillo |
| chiang hai shek | -leader of nationalist china -enemy hochi ming -lost anf fled to Formosa (Taiwan) |
| thich quang duc | -light himself on fire bc of discrimination towards buddist monks -from vietnam |
| Richard nixon | -37th president, only one to ever be convicted -ran against JFK -VP for eisenhower -tricky dick nix:) -water gate recording -bad at wording himself correctly |
| julius and ethel rosenberg | -spies who gave info to soviet union about the cold war -ethel typed notes -both killed in electric chairs |
| marilyn monroe | -first centerfold of playboy -sang gentlemen prefer blondes, diamonds are a girl best friend -affair with JFK -married to joe dimaggio(divorced) -drug overdose -candle in the wind is about her |
| alfred von schieffen | -german failure in WWI -wanted to do two things at once causing the french to defeat germans |
| marlon brando | -actor - played godfather - in a streetcar named desire -famous for yelling STELLLLA! -academy awards -bought an island called tetiaroa near tahiti |
| charles de gualle | -charles of gaulle -french general in WWII -responisble for post war o france - airport named after him |
| erwin romell | - won iron cross -popular general -hitler demanded his suicide -leader of Afracore -in d-day |
| theodore rosevelt | -teddy bears -youngest pres. to serve -became pres. after assassination of in 1901 -famous for panama canal |
| grace kelly | -from pennslyvania -successful hollywood actress -married the prince of monaco |
| douglas mcarthur | -lived in baltimore -american general for the Phillipines -signed surrender in japan for USA |
| franklin delano roosevelt | -married to elenore -paralized leg cuz of polio -election 4 terms (during great depression) -led us through WWI and planned an atomic bomb |
| lady diana | -teacher in upper class chosen to marry charles -treated poorly by the royal but loved by the world -had affair and got divorced -died in a car crash |
| muhammed ali | -began the trash talk tradition is sports -float like a butterfly sting like a bee -real name casius clay -won olymics and heavy weight champion -went to jail in vietnam then changed his name |
| lech walesa | -polish politician and leader of labor union -fought against communist rule in poland -first democratically elected president of poland |
| ronald reagan | -actor and governer of Cali. -president 40th -died of alzheiemers disease -centrist -shot by Hinkly |
| hochi minh | -from vietnam(indo-china) -fought the french -was in the battle of dien bien phu -mummy |
| winston churchill | -british prime minister during WWII -decision about invading turkey -painter,writer,politician -boer war |
| steven spielberg | -first movie = the duel -amazing director -started out with pop movies then became more seroius |
| wright brothers | -wilbur and orville -owned bicycle repair store in ohio -changed human life (plane) - wen to NC for winf |
| johnny unites | -baltimore colts quarterback -died of heart attack on a tred mill -legendary sports man |
| idera ghandi | -married to ghandis assistant - 1st and only female priminster of india (3rd overall) -murdered by to assassins |
| billie jean king | -put womens tennis on the map or as popular as mens -challenged bobby riggs bc he said that any man could beat women (won) |
| james dean and natalie wood | -both in Rebel Without a Cause -JD= actor died in car accident -NW= marid west side , drowned |
| pele | -most famous soccer player from brazil -responsible for el;avting soccer in other parts of the world |
| emperor hirohito | -japanese emperor -brought up in royal lifestyle - citizens never heard him speak other than the surrender of japan |
| tenzing norgay & sir edmond hilary | -first climbers to reach the summit of mt, everest -tenzing sherpa (not given much credz) -edmond from new zealand -tenzing from nepal |
| arnold palmer and jack nichlaus | -both great golfers |
| christian barnard | -the firts surgent to do the first successful heart transplant bewt. humans -south african |
| pope john XXIII | -23rd john -changed the church for good - ex. latin to english etc. -helped jews in holocuast |
| jacques cousteau | -french marine scientist and photographer -invented scuba gear |
| jack nichlaus & arnold palmer | -professal golfer -holds record for most majors -both rivals jack dominated |
| sunny liston | -boxer and heavy weight champion of world -muhammad stand over him to win his first championship |
| cesar chavez | -labor leader and civil rights activist -co founded the national farm workers association |
| john rockafeller | -industrailist who founded the Standard oil company and became very rich -rockafeller center named after him |
| sean connery | -scottish actor who was most famous of all the james bonds -seven bond films - won 3 globes and other awards |
| gemal adbel nasser | -nationalized the suez canal -priminister of eygpt |
| camp david | begin - isreal sadat-eygpt carter-us |
| marg thacther | -only woman to ever be priminister of GB - |
| clintons | -bill=42 president -hill=secratary of state 67th both influencial |
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