More SS: with love from David but put together by TJ
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- Lindbergh
- First to fly solo across atlantic during 1920's
- Stonewall
- Southern general, brought reinforcements to Bull Run, killed at Chancellorsville
- Armstrong
- Jazz trumpeter of HR
- Pershing
- Head of AEF during WWI
- Washington
- African American leader and Educator born into slavery, later head of Tuskegee Institute for career training for African American
- Bessie Smith
- Popular African American blues singer in '20's
- Rosa Parks
- Civil Rights activists, did not give up seat, led to Montgomery AL bus boycott
- Rosenbergs
- Couple executed for giving military secrets to USSR
- Korematsu
- Japanses American, sued gov saying his Civil Rights were violated by being put in an internment camp
- Robinson
- Broke the color barrier in MLB
- George
- British rep. at Versailles
- Palmer
- Attorney general who ordered home raids of suspected radicals and communists
- Chamberlain
- British PM at Munich
- Chaplin
- GD actor, popularized little tramp actor
- Randolph
- Founded Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, labor leader threatened a march on DC protesting discrimination against blacks in defense industries
- Johnson
- Lincoln VP impeached due to unpopular reconstruction ideas
- McClellan
- Union general and candidate for president in '64
- Perkins
- First women in pres cabinet, sec. of labor
- Tidlen
- Dem, lost pres election due to comp. of 1877
- Eisenhower
- General, President, helped plan D-Day
- Lucille Ball
- Star of I Love Lucy
- Zimmermann
- German foreign minister sent telegram to Mexico asking them to join against the US in WWI
- DuBois
- African American educator, editor, and writer. Helped found the NAACP
- Sherman
- U commander, had "total war" in GA
- Davis
- President of confederacy
- Hughes
- Poet of Harlem Renissance
- Grant
- U commander, ended war, won Vicksburg, Shiloh, and Fort Henry and Donelson, president for two terms
- Truman
- President after FDR, his VP, led US through end of WWII and beginning of Cold War
- Ruth
- Great Baseball player of the 20's
- Dix
- Got women to serve as nurses in civil war, change prison system by advocating development of state in hospitals to treat mentally ill
- Barton
- Founded red cross, cared to U soldiers in CV
- Ford
- Business leader started assembly line
- Lincoln
- Promoted equal rights for African Americans, president, issued EP, assassinated
- Booth
- Actor and assassin of Lincoln
- Clemenceau
- French painter, rep at Versailles Peace Conference
- Garvey
- Led the "Back to Africa" movement
- Coolidge
- VP pres after Harding's death, known for honesty and pro-business policies
- York
- WWI TN war hero
- Eleanor
- Wife of FDR
- Nixon
- Resigned due to Watergate scandal
- Farragut
- U admiral captured New Orleans during CV
- Red Baron
- German "ace" piolot
- Lee
- CSA general, lost war
- Rommel
- Commanded Axis troops in NA known as Dessert Fox
- Inouye
- Japanese, lost arm in WWII, became HI sen.
- Patton
- Normandy and Battle of the Bulge, known for tank warfare
- Pickett
- confederate general famous famous for unsuccessful charge charge at Gettysburg
- McCarthy
- Rep. senator, accused many of being communist
- Steinbeck
- Wrote grapes of wrath
- Lange
- Took pictures of GD
- MacArthur
- Commanded US in South Pacific, commanded forces in Korean War, drove bonus marchers out of DC
- Wilson
- 14 point plan that included the League of Nations
- Churchill
- British prime minister, opposed appeasement, led Great Britain through WWII
- Hoover
- Pres, failed to effectively deal with depression
- Mussolini
- Italian dictator in WWII
- Hemingway
- Drove ambulance wrote famous books
- Capone
- 20's crime boss
- Presley
- 50's rock and roll star
- Tuskegee airmen
- African American pilots who shot down over 200 planes
- Fitzgerald
- Wrote Jazz Age story, The Great Gatsby
- Rosie the Riveter
- Advertising character, symbolized women in war and manufacturing jobs
- Scopes
- TN teacher who taught evolution
- Kennedy
- President assassinated in Dallas
- Stalin
- USSR dictator created power in E. Europe post war
- Brady
- Famous Civil War Photographer
- Hitler
- Leader of Germany in WWII
- Harding
- Died in office, secretary of interior charged with Teapot Dome Scandal
- Tojo
- Japanese nationalist dictator