Unit 8 Review People
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Slovenian | English |
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| Florence Kelley |  reformer who worked to prohibit child labor and to improve conditions for female workers |
| Eugene V. Debs | American Socialist Party, ran for president 5 times |
| Susan B. Anthony | social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation (NWSA) |
| Leon Czolgosz | assassinated McKinley |
| Upton Sinclair | muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry |
| Woodrow Wilson | won election of 1912, democrat, led America into WWI, Fourteen Points Plan |
| Alfred T. Mahan | American admiral encouraged the government to build a stronger navy |
| Sanford B. Dole | American businessman who took control of Hawaii after Liliuokalani was deposed |
| Valeriano Weyler | Spanish general who was sent to Cuba to restore order and herded many civilians into barbed-wire reconcentration camps |
| Emilio Aquinaldo | led the Filipino Rebels and fought for freedom against the US |
| Pancho Villa | led Mexicans, thought to be the leader with support of Wilson but Wilson said Carranza was true leader, threatened reprisals against US |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | supported militarism, built German navy and army |
| Gavrilo Princip | assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, a part of the Black Hand |
| Manfred von Richthofen | a German fighter pilot known as "The Red Baron" |
| Arthur Zimmerman | a german foreign secretary that sent a telegram during WWI secretly proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the US for support in reconquering "lost territory" |
| Czar Nicholas II | Russian czar during WWI and pulled Russia out of war, unpopular with Russian people, abdiacted throne, later massacred along with his entire family |
| Alvin York | killed 25 Germans and captured 132, most decorated war hero in WWI |
| Herbert Hoover | president 1923-1933, led US in the beginning of the Great Depression, didn't want the government involved in the peoples lives and thought that the people should express their individual rights |
| David Lloyd George | Prime Minister who represented Britain at the Treaty of Versailles meeting |
| Vittorio Orlando | Italian representative at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 |
| Carry Nation | woman who had strong beliefs in prohibition, walk around holding a bible and a hatchet |
| Henry Ford | created assembly line and more affordable cars, had good working conditions for his workers--8 hour work day |
| William McKinley | president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, promoted imperialism, assassinated by Czolgosz |
| Theodore Roosevelt | president known for conservationism, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet |
| William Howard Taft | seceeded Roosevelt, won 1908 election, ran against Wilson in election of 1912 and lost, heaviest president |
| Queen Liliuokalani | the last queen of independent Hawaii |
| William Seward | secretary of state who was responsible for purchasing Alaskan territory |
| Jose Marti | led the fight for Cuba's independence from Spain from 1895 through the Spanish-American War |
| Enrique Dupuy de Lome | Spanish ambassador to the US and had a private letter published in the New York Journal |
| John Hay | secretary of state under McKinley and Roosevelt, Open-Door Notes and Panama Canal involvment |
| John J. Pershing | US general who chased Pancho Villa over 300 miles into Mexico but didn't capture him, found American Expedition Forces (AEF) |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, assassinated in Sarajevo, started WWI |
| Eddie Rickenbaker | most famous American pilot in World War 1, shot down 26 enemy planes, was a racecar driver |
| Charles Evans Hughes | republican, ran against Wilson in the election of 1916, lost |
| Jeanette Rankin | first woman in Congress who said no to both WWI and WWII |
| Vladimir Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) |
| Bernard Baruch | head of the War Industries Board, which attempted to impose some order on the U.S. war production |
| George Creel | headed the Committee on Public Information, for promoting the war effort in WWI |
| George Clemenceau | French premier and representative in Big 4 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | conservative senator who wanted to keep the united states out of the league of nations |
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