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Jane Addams

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established the Settlement House Movement and made Americans realize that it was ok to help the poor

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Madeline Albright

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first female secretary of state appointed by Bill Clinton

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Jane Addams

established the Settlement House Movement and made Americans realize that it was ok to help the poor

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Madeline Albright

first female secretary of state appointed by Bill Clinton

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Neil Armstrong

first man on the moon

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George H. Bush

president when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, which led him to send American forces to Iraq and Afghanistan

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George H.W. Bush

president when the Cold War officially ended, he also was the president during the Persian Gulf War. He ultimately lost reelection because he raised taxes

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Al Capone

gangster during the Roaring Twenties, he made millions off of bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling

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Carrie Catt

conservative leader of the Women's Suffrage Movement

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Jimmy Carter

president who brought peace to the Middle East with the Camp David Accords, however lost popularity because of the energy crisis, his boycott of the Olympics, and the Iranian Hostage Crisis

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Fidel Castro

communist leader of Cuba

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Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister during WWII

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George Creel

head of the Committee on Public Information during WWI, he dealt with psychological mobilization

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe during WWII. He also became president and established the Interstate Highway Act

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Henry Ford

established the assembly line in his factories which made the automobile more affordable

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Gerald Ford

only president not to be elected, he lost popularity when he pardoned Nixon and tried to establish the WIN program

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Betty Friedan

author of the Feminine Mystique, in which she reported that women of the 1950s were not happy

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Mikhail Gorbachev

leader of the Soviet Union under the Reagan and Bush administration; he is partly responsible for the end of the Cold War.

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Adolf Hitler

fascist leader of Germany during WW II

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Herbert Hoover

president at the start of the Great Depression

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Langston Hughes

poet of the Harlem Renaissance

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Lyndon B. Johnson

president responsible for the Great Society and the escalation/ "Americanization of the Vietnam War

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Martin Luther King

leader of the SCLC, he was a civil rights activist known for his passive resistance

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Nikita Khrushchev

leader of the Soviet Union during the 1960s- Cuban Missile Crisis

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Charles Lindbergh

first man to fly solo across the Atlantic

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Douglas MacArthur

Supreme Commander of Allied forces in the Pacific during WWII

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Joseph McCarthy

led a communist witch hunt during the 1950s

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Andrew Mellon

Secretary of the Treasury during the 1920s responsible for the Trickle-Down Theory

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Benito Mussolini

fascist leader of Italy during WWII

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Richard Nixon

president who ended the Vietnam War and opened the doors to China; however, he was forced to resign because of the Watergate scandal

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Manuel Noriega

Panamanian general arrested during the George H.W. Bush administration for funneling drugs into the U.S.

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Georgia O'Keefe

artist of the Roaring Twenties responsible for bright, vibrant colors

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Lee Harvey Oswald

accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy

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Alice Paul

radical leader of the Women's Suffrage Movement who finally aggravated Wilson into supporting the 19th Amendment

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Rosa Parks

her refusal to move out of the white section of the bus started the Montgomery Bus boycott

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Francis Perkins

first female cabinet member appointed by Franklin Roosevelt

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Ronald Reagan

president credited with the end of the Cold War

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John J. Pershing

head of the American Expeditionary Force during WWI

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Jacob Riis

photographer who took pictures of the poor in New York. He proved to Americans that poverty does exist in the U.S.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

first lady who became the champion of the poor and minorities during the 1930s

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Franklin Roosevelt

established the New Deal and fought WWII

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Theodore Roosevelt

became known as the "trust buster", established the Pure Food and Drug Act, and claimed the U.S. could become an international police power

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Upton Sinclair

wrote The Jungle, which encouraged the establishment of the Pure Food and Drug Act

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Joseph Stalin

communist leader of the Soviet Union during WWII

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Harry S. Truman

dropped atomic bombs to end WWII and desegregated the armed forces

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Woodrow Wilson

Progressive president who also fought WWI

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Overall significance: Jacob Riis

proved to Americans that poverty actually existed in the United States, not other countries only

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Overall significance: Upton Sinclair

his investigation of the meat packing industry led to federal legislation like the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act

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Overall significance: Jane Addams

proved to Americans that it was Ok to help the poor

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Overall significance: Alice Paul

her radical actions in the Women's Suffrage Movement led to the passage of the 19th Amendment

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overall significance: Theodore Roosevelt

influential president strengthened the power of the presidency with his domestic policy and made the U.S. stronger in the realm of foreign policy

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overall significance: White Man's Burden

led to the U.S. acquisition of territory like Hawaii and the Philippines

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overall significance: Spanish American War

led to the U.S. acquisition of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, thus making the U.S. stronger and fulfilling imperialistic goals

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overall significance: Article X

the U.S. did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles because Article X would commit the U.S. to fighting future wars. The U.S. would not become part of the League of Nations, and without it the organization would fall apart, thus leading to WWII

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overall siginficance: Harlem Renaissance

positive focus on African American culture in the 1920s

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overall significance: Franklin Roosevelt

President who led the U.S. through the Great Depression and WWII

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overall significance: D-Day

One of the most important battles of WWII, which took the pressure off of the Soviet Union and allowed Allied forces to move toward Germany

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overall significance: Manhattan Project

led to the nuclear age

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overall significance: Yalta Conference

start of the Cold War when the Soviets gained Poland

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overall significance: Truman Doctrine

official declaration of the Cold War which led to U.S. involvement in Korea and Vietnam

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overall significance: GI Bill of Rights

led to a more literate population and the age of suburbia

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overall significance: Brown v. the Board of Education

led to the desegregation of the public school system

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overall significance: Election of 1960

voters are now voting on image rather than issues

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overall significance: Cuban Missile Crisis

height of the Cold War; this is the closest the U.S. will get to the Cold War

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overall significance: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

will allow Johnson the escalate the Vietnam War, thus leading to the "Americanization" of the war

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overall significance: Watergate

led the American public to become disgusted with the federal government and question the integrity of their presidents

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overall significance: Iranian Hostage Crisis

coming at the end of the 1970s (1979) it made Americans wonder what had happened to the country that had emerged right after WWII. It primes the country for Ronald Reagan