APUSH Famous People 151-200
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Huey Long | Louisianna Senator who opposed FDR's New Deal and came up with a , "Share the Wealth" wants to give $5k to all families ,was later assasinated |
| Father Charles Coughlin | A critic of the New Deal; created the National Union for Social Justice; wanted a monetary inflation and the nationalization of the banking system |
| Herbert Hoover | President from 1929 to 1933, called on businesses to help solve the situation rather than the government. Americans felt he did little to help them. |
| Frances Perkins | U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman ever appointed to the cabinet. |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | President 1933-45, took us out of the depression and into WWII, the new deal |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Wife of FDR who helped him monitor New Deal programs and became a strong voice for women and minorities |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | Leader of Manhattan project |
| Fred Korematsu | Brought law suit stating that his imprisonment in an internment camp was a violation of his civil rights |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich in Germany during World War II. |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist dictator during WWII |
| Joesph McCarthy | Republican senator, accused many prominent figures of being communists, played a prominent role in the red scare of the 1950's |
| Ethel & Julius Rosenberg | Activists in the American Communist Party who were executed as spies |
| Joesph Stalin | Russian, communist dictator who ruled with fear; attempted to jump start industry with no concern for individuals |
| Mao Tse-tung | Communist leader of China; gained power through the Chinese civil war; defeated US backed Chiang Kai Shek |
| Douglas McArthur | Leading US General in the Pacific Theater |
| George Keenan | American ambassador to the Soviet Union who proposed the policy of containment |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII |
| Thomas Dewey | Republican presidential nominee in 1944 who failed in his effort to deny FDR a fourth term |
| J. Strom Thurmond | South Carolinian who was the presidential candidate of the States' Rights (Dixicrat) party in 1948. |
| Harry S. Truman | Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb |
| Jack Kerouac | Leader of the beat generation; wrote On the Road- open approach to life |
| Rosa Parks | Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed, the Montgomery bus boycott was organized. |
| Earl Warren | Chief Justice on the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969, presided over the Brown V. Board of Education case |
| Linda Brown | Black girl who was refused enrollment in the closest school to her house because of segregation. |
| Jackie Robinson | First African American to play in Major League Baseball |
| Fidel Castro | Communist leader of Cuba |
| Nikita Khrushehev | Premier of Russia during Cold War |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of north vietnam |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Leader of the Allied forces in Europe then was elected to be Pres. of the USA |
| Hubert Humphrey | LBJ's vice president. won nomination; not presidency. Called for an end to segregation. |
| Betty Friedman | Wrote the feminine mystique |
| Ernesto Miranda | Convicted on the basis of a confession obtained without a lawyer; led to "Miranda Rights" today |
| Robert Kennedy | JFK's brother and was assassinated before being able to finish his political race |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | African-American civil rights leader |
| James Meredith | First african american student at university of Mississippi |
| Rachel Carson | Marine biologist and author of Silent Spring who exposed the harmful affects of pesticides |
| Ralph Nader | Consumer rights activist who in the 60s and 70s attacked corporate Americas unsafe products. Wrote book about the auto industry called Unsafe at Any Speed |
| Barry Goldwater | Conservative Republican whose crushing defeat opened the way for the liberal Great Society programs |
| John F. Kennedy | President during Bay of Pigs, and Cuban Missile Crisis. Strong image icon. Creator of Civil Rights Act. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | President after Kennedy. Creator of "Great Society". Got involved in Vietnam. |
| Cesar Chavez | United States labor leader who organized farm workers |
| Warren Burger | Supreme Court chief Justice considered a strict constitutionist |
| Anwar Sadat/Menachim Begin | Egyptian president who made peace with Israel. Former Prime Minister of Israel. Signed peace treaty with Anwar Sadat in 1979. |
| Henry Kissinger | The main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese; secretary of state during Nixon's presidency |
| Richard Nixon | Republican, 37th president, reduced troops in Vietnam, normalized relations with China, Watergate |
| Gerald Ford | President 1974-77, Nixon's Vice president, only person not voted into the White House |
| Jimmy Carter | President after Ford, president during a U.S. energy crisis and the Hostages in Iran, helped sign a treaty between Egypt and Israel. |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms |
| Ronald Reagan | US president contributed with ending the cold war; built up the us military |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | First female Supreme Court justice |
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