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*Fought discrimination against migrant, workers, and Hispanics. Founded the United Farmworkers Organizing Committee Union.

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*César Chávez

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*French political thinker in historian who came to the US to study our political and social nature. Identified five characteristics that set Americans apart: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, laissez-faire.

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*Alexis de Tocqueville

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*34th president. Prior to Presidency, served in WWII as commander of Allied Forces in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Promoted to general after D-Day. Created the Interstate Highway System as president.

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*Dwight Eisenhower

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*American who volunteered to serve as pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the US entering the war.

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*The Flying Tigers

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*leader of the Civil Rights Movement; preached nonviolent approach, and demanded equal rights for African-Americans.

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*Martin Luther King, Jr.

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*Commander of US Army in the Pacific in WWII

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*Douglas MacArthur

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Navajo American Indians were recruited by the military to encode, transmit, and decode messages; the Navajo language was used to develop a code that was not broken by the enemy, and WWII

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Navajo Code Talkers

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*Commander of the US Navy and Allied land and sea forces in the Pacific In WWII

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*Chester Nimitz

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*African-American, Civil Rights activist; in Montgomery, Alabama (1955), refused to give up her seat on the city bus for a white man; lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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*Rosa Parks

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Worked with NAACP, MLK

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*determine young men who enlisted to become America’s first black military aviators at a time when the US military still practice racial segregation. They participated in over 15,000 sorties and earned over 100 Flying Crosses.

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*The Tuskegee Airmen

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• President, ended segregation in the military

• Proposed “Fair Deal” including full employment, fair-employment practices bills, development of natural resources, etc.

• Became suspicious of Soviet intentions under Stalin— Led to Truman Doctrine

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Harry Truman

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Truman Doctrine

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Where the US supported Greece and Turkey and their attempt to ward off, communist threats

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Truman Doctrine

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•Senator after whom the term “McCarthyism” is named.

•Accused people of being communists/ being associated with communists

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Joseph McCarthy

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Extreme opposition of communism, named from the efforts of Senator McCarthy who, in 1950, announced that communists worked in the State Department.

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McCarthyism

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Was the most decorated American soldier in WWI. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest during the US lead portion of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France.

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Alvin York

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Was the most decorated American soldier in WWI. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest during the US lead portion of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France.

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Alvin York

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First African-American president of the US, elected 2008

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Barack Obama

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President in the 1970s. Hope the US withdraw from Vietnam and improve relations with China, but resigned Presidency after the Watergate scandal

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Richard Nixon

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Distinguished lawyer; appointed to the US Supreme Court (1967) established a record for supporting the voiceless American

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Thurgood Marshall

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Historian and author of a book of the importance of the Navy to the country’s power

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

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First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

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Charles A. Lindbergh

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President during the 1960s. Navigated to the US through the Cuban missile crisis and other Cold War issues with the Soviet unions. Assassinated in 1963.

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John F. Kennedy

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Advocate in lobbyist for farmworkers’ rights

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Dolores Huerta

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A powerful Evangelical preacher; conducted many Evangelistic, crusades and council, majority of US Presidents from Truman through Obama

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Billy Graham

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Publisher, journalist, and Black Nationalist; founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in African Communities League

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Marcus Garvey

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Wrote Feminine Mystique, co-founded National Organization for Women (NOW)

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Betty Frieden

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American reformer and leader in the anti-lynching crusade and women’s suffrage movement

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Ida B. Wells

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Founder of Ford Motors, innovated the auto industry with the assembly line and invented the Model-T and Model-A cars, with an affordable price

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Henry Ford

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Governor of Arkansas who supported segregation. Used Arkansas national guards to prevent students from integrating Little Rock high school.

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Orval Faubus

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Early civil rights, leader published “The Souls of Black Folks” in 1903 and help found the NAACP in 1909. Advocated for Pan-Africanism (All African descent people should fight oppression together), eventually left NAACP and believed in Black separatism

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WEB DuBois

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Negotiated the annexation of Hawaii to the US In 1898. Served as President of the Provisional government of the Republic of Hawaii after Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown.

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Sanford Dole

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42nd president, Democrat. Third president to be impeached. Was acquitted by the Senate.

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Bill Clinton

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accumulated huge Wealth in the railroad and steel industry, use the Bessemer process to create steel. Developed “Gospel of Wealth” doctrine, and which he believed, it was the duty of the wealthy, to use their money to improve the conditions for all

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Andrew Carnegie

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Radical group in the 1960s who advocated armed self-defense in revolution to end black oppression. More militant, and MLK and other civil rights leaders but also established daycare centers, medical clinics, etc.

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The Black Panthers

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Awarded the Medal of Honor for saving fellow soldiers in Vietnam War

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Roy Benavidez

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awarded several top military awards in WWII, Including the Medal of Honor

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Vernon Baker

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advocated for women’s suffrage

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Susan B. Anthony

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Governor of Alabama; ran for US president four times; fierce pro segregation is; quote from his inaugural address, “I say segregation today, segregation, tomorrow, and segregation forever”

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George Wallace

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Founded Hull House in Chicago to help poor immigrants, part of social reform movements

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Jane Addams

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President in the 1920s, advocated “Return to Normalcy” (meaning life before WWI) and “America first” campaign, encouraged industrialization in a strong economy, independent of foreign influence

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Warren Harding

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First Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court, nominated by President Obama

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Sonia Sotomayor

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Author; wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the US meatpacking industry leading to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection

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Upton Sinclair

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President during the Great Depression and WWII. Famous for the “new deal” recovery program, which helped alleviate the Great Depression unexpended the role of the government. Said 12/7/41 is a “day which will live in infamy”

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Rough Rider” during the Spanish American war; expansionist policies as president increased the US role in line America in the world; reasserted the Monroe Doctrine

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Theodore Roosevelt

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President in the 1980s – grew US through “Reaganomics,” influence the end of the Cold War, advocated for a strong military to deter aggression against the US

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Ronald Reagan

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Commander of the American Expeditionary forces in WWI

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General John J. Pershing

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First Woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court (1981)

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Sandra Day O’Connor

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President in the 1970s. Helped the US withdraw from Vietnam and improve relations with China, but resigned Presidency after the Watergate scandal

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Richard Nixon