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Key People to Know
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
Lighting and
mechanical uses of
electricity
Now “See in the
Dark”, work longer!
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone services
Improved
Communications
Jane Addams
Founded Hull
House
It helped
immigrants, learn
English.
Served meals.
Daycare
Chief Joseph
Indian Policies and
War
I Will Fight No
More Forever
Manifest Destiny
not good for Native
Americans
Booker T (Training) Washington
Believed equality
could be achieved
through vocational
(job) education.
Accepted separate
but equal
W.E.B Dubois
Believed in full
political, civil and
social rights for
African Americans
Deboyz, Degirlz full
freedom
John D. Rockefeller
Captain of Industry.
Standard Oil
Company
Exxon
Andrew Carnegie
Captain of Industry
Steel
Bessemer Process
Made steel
stronger
Skyscrapers
Henry Ford
Assembly Line
Model T
Improved
Transportation
More Jobs
Susan B. Anthony
Worked for
woman’s suffrage
(vote)
Franz Ferdinand
His Assassination by
Princip started World
War I.
1914-1918
U.S. joined in 1917
Lusitania/Unrestricted
sub warfare and
Zimmerman Telegram
Woodrow Wilson
President
Prepared a peace
plan called the 14
points
Point #14 League of
Nations “Baby”
Cause of WWII could
not keep peace
Guglielmo Marconi
Developed the
Radio
Wright Brothers
Inventors of the
Airplane
First flight Kitty
Hawk, North
Carolina
David Sarnoff
Development of the
Broadcast industry
Sign on Sign
off=Broadcasting
Georgia O’Keefe
Artist, painter
Southwest scenes
and urban scenes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book “Great
Gatsby”
About Jazz
age/1920’s
How spoiled and
selfish they were
John Steinbeck
Book “Grapes of
Wrath”
About poor migrant
workers going to
California and their
struggles
Aaron Copland
Composer (wrote
songs)
American music
George Gershwin
Composer (wrote
songs)
America Music
Jacob Lawrence
African American
painter
During Harlem
Renaissance
Painted Great
Migration North
Langston Hughes
Poet
During Harlem
Renaissance
Combined the
experiences of
African American
cultural roots
Duke Ellington
Jazz Musician
During Harlem
Renaissance
Louis Armstrong
Jazz Musician
During Harlem
Renaissance
Known for Trumpet
playing
Bessie Smith
Blues Singer
During Harlem
Renaissance
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Developed the New Deal
to help people during the
Great Depression
Social Security
Planted Trees
Build roads, dams
Put people to work
WWII
Adolf Hitler
Fascist Nazi
Totalitarian Dictator of
Germany
Responsible for the
Holocaust, killing 6-9
million of the Jewish
Race and others
Axis Power
Used Depression to
rise to power (Hope)
Benito Mussolini
Fascist Dictator of
Italy
Friends with Hitler
Axis power
Used Depression
to rise to power
(Hope)
Hideki Tojo
Fascist Dictator of
Japan
Axis Power
Attacked Pearl Harbor
making the U.S. mad
enough to join WWII
in 1941
Joseph Stalin
Totalitarian Dictator of
U.S.S.R
Invaded Poland with
Hitler starting WWII in
1939
Changed sides after
Hitler invaded Russia
Harry S. Truman
President of U.S.
Allies
Took over when FDR died
Dropped atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
ending WWII
Truman Doctrine-Help fight
communism, contain it,
Domino theory
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of
Great Britain
Allies
Last standing before
U.S. joined in 1941
Iron Curtain splits
Eur.
West Wonderful
East Evil
Rosie the Riveter
Symbol of Working
Women during
WWII
Worked in Defense
plants
In Propaganda
Posters
George C. Marshall
Marshall Plan
Massive Economic
Aid
Give money to
Europe to rebuild
after WWII
40 billion
Used to prevent
spread of
Communism
Eleanor Roosevelt
Expanded Civil
Rights
For Women
Supported
Tuskegee Airmen
Martin Luther King Jr.
Passive Resistance
against segregated
facilities.
Peace, Sit ins,
Marches, Freedom
Riders
March on Washington
1963
I have a Dream
Rosa Parks
Started the Civil
Rights Movement with
her action
Action: Not giving up
her seat in front.
Montgomery Bus
boycott for a year
Ended Segregation
on Buses
Charles Drew – blood plasma
“Drew – blood” plasma
African American physician and surgeon
helped develop blood banks for WWII
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J. Robert Oppenheimer – physics
worked on Manhattan Project to develop atomic
bomb for WWII
early leader in theoretical physics
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William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter
Brattain (Bell Labs Team)
won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 for
inventing transistors
led to computer chip, satellite tech, most
modern electronics
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Frank Lloyd Wright
“Wright Design”
Frank Lloyd Wright
greatest American architect
promoted organic architecture (harmonious
integration of building, surrounding, and
furnishings)
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Ansel Adams
“Andsell pictures”
photographer famous for black-and-white
photos of Yosemite National Park and other
places in the American West
environmentalist
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Martha Graham
“Marvelous dancing Martha”
choreographer
a pioneer of modern dance
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Henry Louis Gates
African American scholar, writer, educator
emphasis on black culture
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Maya Angelou
“Maya love your poetry”
Maya Angelou
African American poet,
autobiographer
worked with Martin Luther King, Jr.
also involved in stage and film
delivered a poem at Clinton’s 1993
inauguration
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William J. Durant
wrote history of Western civilization with focus
on social and cultural developments and the
experiences of “average” people
– Traditionally, history focused on important leaders,
politics, and wars.
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Bill Gates “Gateway to technology”
computer technology entrepreneur (Chairman
of Microsoft)
philanthropist
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Ray Kroc
Czech-American entrepreneur
started as Illinois milkshake-machine salesman
partnered with McDonald brothers and
eventually bought the rights to their restaurant
used Ford’s assembly-line techniques to
revolutionize fast food
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Sam Walton
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big-business retailer from Oklahoma
started as owner of Ben Franklin stores
that beat competition with late hours and low
prices, which were made possible by smart
deals with his wholesale suppliers
opened Wal-Mart chain in 1960’s in Arkansas
Wal-Mart, Inc. opened the first Sam’s Club in
Oklahoma in 1983.