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