Jane Addams
established the Settlement House Movement and made Americans realize that it was ok to help the poor
Madeline Albright
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
Madeline Albright
first female secretary of state appointed by Bill Clinton
Neil Armstrong
first man on the moon
George H. Bush
president when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, which led him to send American forces to Iraq and Afghanistan
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
Al Capone
gangster during the Roaring Twenties, he made millions off of bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling
Carrie Catt
conservative leader of the Women's Suffrage Movement
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
Fidel Castro
communist leader of Cuba
Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister during WWII
George Creel
head of the Committee on Public Information during WWI, he dealt with psychological mobilization
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe during WWII. He also became president and established the Interstate Highway Act
Henry Ford
established the assembly line in his factories which made the automobile more affordable
Gerald Ford
only president not to be elected, he lost popularity when he pardoned Nixon and tried to establish the WIN program
Betty Friedan
author of the Feminine Mystique, in which she reported that women of the 1950s were not happy
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union under the Reagan and Bush administration; he is partly responsible for the end of the Cold War.
Adolf Hitler
fascist leader of Germany during WW II
Herbert Hoover
president at the start of the Great Depression
Langston Hughes
poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Lyndon B. Johnson
president responsible for the Great Society and the escalation/ "Americanization of the Vietnam War
Martin Luther King
leader of the SCLC, he was a civil rights activist known for his passive resistance
Nikita Khrushchev
leader of the Soviet Union during the 1960s- Cuban Missile Crisis
Charles Lindbergh
first man to fly solo across the Atlantic
Douglas MacArthur
Supreme Commander of Allied forces in the Pacific during WWII
Joseph McCarthy
led a communist witch hunt during the 1950s
Andrew Mellon
Secretary of the Treasury during the 1920s responsible for the Trickle-Down Theory
Benito Mussolini
fascist leader of Italy during WWII
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
Manuel Noriega
Panamanian general arrested during the George H.W. Bush administration for funneling drugs into the U.S.
Georgia O'Keefe
artist of the Roaring Twenties responsible for bright, vibrant colors
Lee Harvey Oswald
accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy
Alice Paul
radical leader of the Women's Suffrage Movement who finally aggravated Wilson into supporting the 19th Amendment
Rosa Parks
her refusal to move out of the white section of the bus started the Montgomery Bus boycott
Francis Perkins
first female cabinet member appointed by Franklin Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
president credited with the end of the Cold War
John J. Pershing
head of the American Expeditionary Force during WWI
Jacob Riis
photographer who took pictures of the poor in New York. He proved to Americans that poverty does exist in the U.S.
Eleanor Roosevelt
first lady who became the champion of the poor and minorities during the 1930s
Franklin Roosevelt
established the New Deal and fought WWII
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
Upton Sinclair
wrote The Jungle, which encouraged the establishment of the Pure Food and Drug Act
Joseph Stalin
communist leader of the Soviet Union during WWII
Harry S. Truman
dropped atomic bombs to end WWII and desegregated the armed forces
Woodrow Wilson
Progressive president who also fought WWI
Overall significance: Jacob Riis
proved to Americans that poverty actually existed in the United States, not other countries only
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
Overall significance: Jane Addams
proved to Americans that it was Ok to help the poor
Overall significance: Alice Paul
her radical actions in the Women's Suffrage Movement led to the passage of the 19th Amendment
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
overall significance: White Man's Burden
led to the U.S. acquisition of territory like Hawaii and the Philippines
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
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
overall siginficance: Harlem Renaissance
positive focus on African American culture in the 1920s
overall significance: Franklin Roosevelt
President who led the U.S. through the Great Depression and WWII
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
overall significance: Manhattan Project
led to the nuclear age
overall significance: Yalta Conference
start of the Cold War when the Soviets gained Poland
overall significance: Truman Doctrine
official declaration of the Cold War which led to U.S. involvement in Korea and Vietnam
overall significance: GI Bill of Rights
led to a more literate population and the age of suburbia
overall significance: Brown v. the Board of Education
led to the desegregation of the public school system
overall significance: Election of 1960
voters are now voting on image rather than issues
overall significance: Cuban Missile Crisis
height of the Cold War; this is the closest the U.S. will get to the Cold War
overall significance: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
will allow Johnson the escalate the Vietnam War, thus leading to the "Americanization" of the war
overall significance: Watergate
led the American public to become disgusted with the federal government and question the integrity of their presidents
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