History Exam People (8-10 Tests)
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- George Dewey
- hero of the Battle of Manila Bay
- Upton Sinclair
- wrote The Jungle which exposed the disguisting horrows of hot dogs and sausages
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- US general allied commander of Operation Overlord (D-Day)
- Huey Long
- liberal opponent of FDR who wanted high taxes on the rich to make "every man a king"
- William M. Tweed
- political boss who controlled Tammany Hall
- Neville Chamberlain
- British Prime Minister who declared while leaving Munich, "we have achieved peace for our time"
- William Gorgas
- military doctor who helped tame tropical diseases in the Panama Canal Zone
- Warren G. Harding
- GOP 1920 canidate for president who won on a pledge of "a return to normalcy"
- Albert Fall
- Harding's Secretary of Interior who was also the first cabinet level official to go to jail
- Alfred T. Mahan
- president of the Naval War College who created the plan for the US to become a major world naval power
- Henry Cabot-Lodge
- GOP senator who led the fight against confirming the Treaty of Versailles
- Liliuokalani
- last queen of hawaii who was abdicated in 1893
- Woodrow Wilson
- democratic nominee for president in 1912
- Benito Mussolini
- Italian Dictator who "made the trains run on time"
- Douglas MacArthur
- US general who announced while leaving the Philippines, "I shall return"
- Charles Lindbergh
- famous pilot who was part of the American First Commitee
- Charles De Gaulle
- leader of the "Free French" government in exile hiding in Great Britain
- Louis Armstrong
- Famous Jazz performer of the 1950s
- Matthew Perry
- American commodore who opened US trade with Japan through the treaty of Kanagawa
- Ida Tarbell
- author of The History of the Standard Ouil Company
- Alfred Smith
- democrat who lost to Hoover in 1928 mainly because he was Catholic
- Will Rogers
- a famous US humorist who said "I've always wanted to see a competent man as president" about Herbert Hoover
- Gavrilo Princeps
- the assasin who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand beginning WWI
- Ida B. Wells
- wrote A Red Record which exposed the horrors of lynching
- Clarence Darrow
- attorney for ACLU defendent John Scoped in the famous Scopes Monkey Trial
- Carry A. Nation
- temperance advocate who broke bottles and kegs with an axe
- Calvin Coolidge
- Mass. governor who broke up the Boston police strike with the quote, "There is no right to strike against the public saftey anytime, anyplace, anywhere"; later as a silent president he said "the business of America is business"
- John J. Pershing
- general who commanded the Amercian Expeditionary Force during WWI
- Erwin Rommel
- German general known as the "Desert Fox" who faced Patton in North Africa
- Baron Manfred Von Richthofen
- WWI German ace who shot down 80 planes
- Winston Churchill
- this man will later become the British Prime Minister and declared about Munich, "The allies had a choice between war and dishonor. they chose dishonor, but they shall have war"
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- US president who called December 7,1941 (Pearl Harbor), "a day which shall live on in infamy"; he also said "the only thing to fear is fear itselft" about the Great Depression
- Henry Ford
- He said about his first mass produced car, "You can have any color you want, as long as its black"
- Mitchell Palmer
- Attorney General who instituted raids on suspected communist radicals and anarchists during the first Red Scare
- William Howard Taft
- GOP nominee for president in the election of 1912
- Niccolo Sacco
- Italian immigrant and anarchist who was executed during the first red scare after being conficted for robbery and murder
- Woodrow Wilson
- this man's campaign for 1916 was "he kept us out of war"
- Eugene V. Debs
- founder of th American Socialist Pary and ran for president five times as a socialist and lost every time
- Herbert Hoover
- headed the Food Administration in WWI and will later become president; Will Rogers said about him "Ive always wanted to see a competent man as president"
- Chester A. Arthur
- became a Stalwart president upon the assasination of James A. Garfield who later reformed Civil Service
- Marcus Garvey
- 1920s African-American leader promised to take black Americans "back to Africa"
- Alice Paul
- suffragist who led protesters in front of the White House in 1917
- Susan B. Anthony
- leader of the National Woman Suffrage Association, first woman on a US coin
- Teddy Roosevelt
- US president who won the nobel peace prize for the Treaty of Portsmouth, hero of the Battle of San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders, sent the Great White Fleet around the globe