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Famous Persons
Famous Persons of the 20th century
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| __became U.S. President when President Roosevelt died in 1945. He was responsible for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan and ending World War II. He started the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after the war. | Harry Truman |
| __was born in 1924. She started singing and touring with the Les Brown Band at age 16. She made her first movie in 1948 and soon became a popular movie star and singer. | Doris Day |
| was a popular "sex symbol" movie star. | Marilyn Monroe |
| was a top gossip reporter, whose newspaper column and radio show could make or break a celebrity. | Walter Winchell |
| was a popular baseball player for the New York Yankees. In 1941, he set a Major League record of hitting safely in 56 straight games. | Joe Dimaggio |
| was a Senator from Wisconsin. He was best known for his work chairing the Senate Committee on Government Operations, which focused on suspected communists in the government. | Joe McCarthy |
| was a member of the House of Representatives from California when he became involved in the trial of Alger Hiss, who was accused of being a Communist and a spy. He became President of the United States. | Richard Nixon |
| were a husband and wife who were arrested and executed for selling secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. | Rosenbergs |
| was the dictator of the Soviet Union. He was a harsh leader who had mil- lions of his people executed or sent to labor camps in Siberia. | Joseph Stalin |
| was the all-star catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. His ca- reer was cut short by a paralyzing car accident. | Campanella |
| was the advisor to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the McCarthy Hearings on Communists in the movie industry and government. | Roy Cohn |
| developed the Theory of Relativity in 1903 and was considered one the world's smartest scientists. | Einstein |
| was a movie star who became a symbol of young people for his role in the movie Rebel Without a Cause. | James Dean |
| Actor Fess Parker starred in the highly popular TV series | Davy Crockett |
| was a top Broadway play starring Mary Martin, who flew through the air. | Peter Pan |
| became a national phenomenon with such number-one hit songs as Heartbreak Hotel, Don't Be Cruel and Hound Dog. | Elvis Presley |
| Actress __ left Hollywood to marry Prince Ranier of Monaco. She then attained the title of Princess Grace. | Grace Kelly |
| was a Russian poet and writer. He is best known in the West for his monumental novel on Soviet Russia, Doctor Zhivago. | Pasternak |
| was the author of the best-selling book On the Road, which epitomized the Beat Generation of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Upon achieving fame, he became a serious alcoholic and died at an early age. | Kerouac |
| was the Premier and Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (also called Red China by Western journalists). | Chou En-Lai |
| returned to power as the leader of France. | Charles de Gaulle |
| was a serial killer who made the news 1958 because of his gruesome murders. Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Fugate, went on a killing spree of 11 to 15 people over a span of a month and a half. They were captured and he was executed in 1959. | Starkweather |
| had been a wealthy lawyer, advocating social justice and protesting the influence of the United States in Cuba. He became involved in political activism and led the revolution to overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959. | Castro |
| was the first President of South Korea, serving from 1948 to 1960. His method of rule became unpopular, and he was forced to resign by a student led democratic movement. | Syngman Rhee |
| Famous author __ committed suicide. | Hemingway |
| Former Nazi leader was arrested in Argentina and brought to Israel, where he was convicted of war crimes and executed. | Eichmann |
| led the folk music craze. | Bob Dylan |
| became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. | John Glenn |
| leader of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978. | Pope Paul VI |
| came into the news when he preached separation of the races as part of the Black Muslim teachings. | Malcolm X |
| was the leader of the Communist North Vietnamese, who first fought the French and then the Americans. | Ho Chi-Minh |
| was Prime Minister of Israel. | Begin |
| Former movie actor who became President of the United States. | Reagan |
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