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History Final - Who
20th Century History final exam - who
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jack Kavorkian | Dr. Death |
| John Hinkley | attempted assassination of Raegan |
| Sirhan Sirhan | killed Robert Kennedy |
| James Earl Ray | killed Martin Luther King |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | killed John F. Kennedy |
| Jack Ruby | killed Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Rosa Parks | refused to move to back of bus. Civil rights movement |
| Douglas McCarther | head of grounds forces in Pacific Front WWII |
| J. Edgar Hoover | head of FBI |
| Jannet Rino | first female attorney general |
| Malcom X | head of black Islam - totally different view than MLK |
| Hiro Hito | emperor of Japan during WWII |
| Robert Perry | first to the North Pole |
| Amundsen | first to the South Pole |
| Queen Victoria | ruler of UK. Dies in 1901 |
| Gorbachev | last president of USSR, gave us Glasnost and Peristroika |
| Stalin | leader of Russia during WWII |
| Lenin | leader of Russia during WWI |
| Yeltsin | first elected president of Russia |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | first femal supreme justice |
| Thurgood Marshal | first black supreme court justice |
| John Rockefeller | first millionaire |
| Ford | gave us Model T and assembly line |
| Sun Yat-Sen | father of modern China |
| Mao Tse Tung | father of communist China |
| Churchill | Prime Minister of Engand "Iron Curtain" |
| William Westmoreland | leader of US troops in Vietnam |
| Salk | found vaccine for Polio |
| Fleming | discovered Penecilin |
| Benito Mussolini | leader of Italy during WWII |
| Franko | leader of Spain during WwII |
| Hitler | leader of Germany during WWII |
| Al Capone | Maphia member, Valentine's Day massacre |
| Eliot Ness | brought down Capone with tax evasion, Untouchables |
| McCarthy | sought communists in America, Witch Trials |
| Neal Armstrong | first man on moon |
| John Glenn | first to orbit earth |
| Alan Shephard | first American in Space |
| Yuri Gagarin | first man in space |
| Pres. McKinley | Spanish-American war |
| Pres. Teddy Roosevelt | Panama Canal, negotiator for Russo-Japanese War |
| Pres. Taft | 16th and 17th amendment signed under, hand picked successor of Roosevelt |
| Pres. Wilson | league of nations, 18th and 19th amendment, president during WWI |
| Pres. Harding | teapot dome scandal |
| Pres. Coolidge | quite Cal |
| Pres. Hoover | stock market crash, great depression president |
| Pres. F. D. Roosevelt | "save the day" WWII, New Deal |
| Pres. Truman | Marshal Plan, drops a-bomb on Japan |
| Pres. Eisenhower | Korean War |
| Pres. Kennedy | Cuban Missile Crisis, assassinated |
| Pres. Johnson | Great Society |
| Pres. Nixon | Watergate, first president to go to China, ends Vietnam War |
| Pres. Ford | first non-elected president under 25th amendment |
| Pres. Carter | Iranian hostages |
| Pres. Reagan | "Great Communicator" Iran Contra Affair |
| Pres. George H. W. Bush | Berlin Wall comes down, Persian Gulf War |
| Pres. Clinton | War in Boznia, Lewinsky affair, 2nd to be impeached |
| Pres. George W. Bush | war in Iran and Afghanistan, Worl trade center, beats Gore in close election |
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