Brad 5Th Soc Studies

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Benito Mussolini

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dictator of Italy during WWII

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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt

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founded the league of women voters

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W.E.B. DuBois

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founder of the NAACP

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Henry Ford

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had system of building automobiles using an assembly line shich made cars faster and cheaper

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Charles Lindbergh

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American pilot. first ot fly his small plane-the spirit of St. Louis- across the Atlantic Ocean

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General Douglas Macarthur & Admiral Cheste W. Nimitz

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commanded the allied forces in the Pacific

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Neil Armstrong & Edwin"Buzz" Aldrin Jr.

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First astronaut to walk onthe moon

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Booker T. Washington

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former slave who helped found Tuskegee Institute a trade school for African-Americans in Alabama

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George Washington Carver

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developed many new food products using peanuts

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Martin Luthe King

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leader of Civil Rights movement of 1950s and 1960s

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Theodore Roosevelt

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began the Panama Canal

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Woodrow Wilson

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founded League of Nations which found peaceful ways of solving conflicts between countries

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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leader of D-Day invasion

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William Clinton

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led U.S. in a period of economic growth

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George Bush

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led U.S. in Persian Gulf War

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Ronald Reagan

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helped the cold war

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James Carter

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helped negotiate a peace treaty between Egypt and Isreal

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George W. Bush

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won the closest election in U.S. history; led the U.S. in war against terrorism

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U.S. purchase of Alaska

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brought the nation many natural resources

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building of Panama Canal

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was built to link American ports on the Atlantic coast with those on the Pacific Coast

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World War I

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German U-boats sank 3 US merchant ships which prompted the US to enter WWI.

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Harlem Renaissance

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Period in the 1920s when African-American artists, musicians, and writers flourished

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Relocation Camps

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The movement of 110,000 Japanese American into the states of California, Arizona, Wyoming, Arkansas, and Idaho

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Bus Boycott

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began in Montgomery, Alabama when Rosa Parks refused to move to a different seat

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start of WWII

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Germany invaded Poland

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US enters WWII

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AFTER Japanese planes dropped a bomb on Pearl Harbor an American Naval Base

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D-Day invasion

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June 6, 1944. The Allies began the largest water to land invasion in history on Northern France

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US involved in Vietnam

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to stop the spread of communism 1..Cost billions 2.. death to thousands of American Soldiers3..divided the American people

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Holocaust

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The mass murder of more than 6 million Jewish peopple in Europe

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German economy after WWI

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developed problems because Germany had to pay other countries for War damages

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WWII(country invading US)

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Japan

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Soviet Union joined Allied forces

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after Germany invaded the Soviet Union

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Rosa Parks

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2 effects: 1..people boycotted buses 2..supreme court ruled to end all segregation on public transportation

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trenches

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American soldiers fought here during WWI

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The New Deal

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program that produced large amounts of electricity was the Tennessee Valley Authority

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blockade

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used by the Soviet Union to try to force western Allies out of Western Berlin

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cease-fire

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a temporary end to a conflict