Chapter 18 People

Archduke Ferdinand - The heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, his death resulted in WWI

Woodrow Wilson - They nominated the Progressive Governor of New Jersey,

General John Pershing - commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF)

"Eddie" Rickenbacker” - the most famous american ace shot down over 20 enemy planes and several balloons

Vladimir Lenin - led a group of Communist radicals and overthrew the Provisional Government and established a Communist dictatorship eventually called the Soviet Union . pulled Russia out of the war and signed an armistice with Germany

Alvin York - one of the best known American WWI heroes

J. Edgar Hoover - took charge of the investigations into the Communists activities

Babe Ruth - the super star of the period was baseball's first great home run hitter

Gertrude Ederle - In 1926, she became the first woman to swim the English Channel.

James Whitcomb Riley - He was among the more traditional writers, by far the most popular poet in the late 19th century and well into the 20th

James Weldon Johnson - He was among the more traditional writers, a black

American who drew on the rich heritage of the Negro spiritual, captured its rhythm and power in God's Trombones, a collection of poetic sermons.

Robert Frost - He was among the more traditional writers, he was considered by many to be the most outstanding poet of the 20th century

W. E. B. Du Bois - some black Americans began to follow the teachings of socialist who helped found National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Al Capone - the most notorious gangster was named by the FBI as "public enemy number one"

Billy Sunday -  by far the best known Evangelist from 1900 to 1935, the baseball-player-turned-Evangelist

William Jennings Bryan - brilliantly defended the Bible and won the case against evolution

Harry Rimmer - lectured for Creation and against evolution in American colleges

Warren G. Harding - elected as President in 1920 had his presidency immediately marred by a series of scandals , most notably the Teapot Dome scandal and was assassinated in 1923
Calvin Coolidge - became president after Warren Harding died in 1923. His father inaugurated him in office was the first Vice President in our history so sit in on cabinet meetings

Charles Lindbergh - was the first to fly a nonstop transatlantic flight , was known as the Lone Eagle

Herbert Hoover - a self made millionaire from a small town in Iowa won the election against Al Smith by 6 million popular votes, Hoover favored

prohibition.