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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

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