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- ROSENBERGS
- Couple executed for giving military secrets to the Soviets in the 1950's
- BESSIE SMITH
- African American blues singer poplar in the 1920's (2 words)
- RANDOLPH
- Founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, made up mostly of African Americans; labor leader who, in 1941, threatened a march on DC protesting discrimination against Blacks in defense industries
- KENNEDY
- 35th President elected in 1960; assassinated in 1963 in Dallas
- CHAMBERLAIN
- British Prime Minister who made the Munich Agreement with Hitler
- JOHNSON
- Lincoln's VP; 17th President; impeached because of his unpopular ideas about Reconstruction and held onto he office by one vote
- GEORGE
- British representative at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919
- BARTON
- Founder of the American Red Cross; she administered care to Union soldiers during the Civil War
- PICKETT
- Confederate general famous for his unsuccessful "charge" at Gettysburg
- PERSHING
- Head of the AEF during WW1
- HARDING
- 29th President elected in 1920; died in 1923; scandals such as Teapot Dome discovered after his death
- STONEWALL
- Nickname for Southern general who brought reinforcements to Bull Run; killed at Chancellorsville
- EISENHOWER
- Allied commander in WW2 in Europe; helped plan the D-Day invasion at Normandy; 34th President
- ROSAPARKS
- American civil rights activist whose arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott (2 words)
- ROMMEL
- Commander of Axis troops in North Africa, known as the "Desert Fox"
- MCCARTHY
- Senator who accused hundreds of American citizens as having communists toes, part of the Red Scare of the 1950's
- Scopes
- Tennessee teacher accused of teaching evolution
- MACARTHUR
- American general; he commanded U.S. troops in the South Pacific during World War II; later he commanded UN forces in the Korean War; also drove the Bonus Marchers out of DC
- DUBOIS
- African American educator, editor, and writer; helped found the NAACP
- DAVIS
- President of the Confederacy
- Lucille Ball
- Actress and TV star of the comedy series, "I Love Lucy"
- TILDEN
- Democratic candidate for President in 1876; lost the election by the Compromise of 1877
- KOREMATSU
- Japanese American who sued the U.S. government that his civil rights had been violated when he was placed in an internment camp
- Fitzgerald
- Author of THE GREAT GATSBY; characters included flappers, bootleggers, and movie makers
- BRADY
- Famous Civil War photographer
- MCCLELLAN
- Union general and candidate for President in 1864
- SHERMAN
- Union commander who waged "total war" across Georgia
- FARRAGUT
- Union admiral who captured New Orleans during the Civil War
- ZIMMERMANN
- German foreign minister who sent telegram urging Mexico to join Central Powers against the U.S. in World War I
- WILSON
- 28h President; proposed the14-Point Plan which included the League of Nations
- RUTH
- Greatest baseball player of the 1920's
- CLEMENCEAU
- French premier during World War I; he was the French representative at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919
- INOUYE
- Japanese American who lost an arm in World War II battle; later became U.S. Senator from Hawaii