Names Flashcards
(23 cards)
Henry Cabot Lodge
- came from a powerful family
-sign a different treaty with Germany without provisions just peace( due to the USA rejecting the treaty of Versailles)
“mind your business”
Wilson ( president)
-Paralyzed , wife took over the government secretly
Vladmir Lenin
(1917) “red and whites”–> Civil rights ( Russian
J. Edgar Hoover
Founding director for over 50 years for the F.B.I. which was founded in 1924
The Ki Klux Klan
- Spreads to the north since many blacks move to the north.
- Expanded groups to go after Jews and Catholics
- Worst Riots were in Chicago
Mexican- Americans
1900-1920
- half million Mexicans fled to U.S.
- were illiterate
- worked for almost nothing
Joseph Kennedy
smuggler ( alcohol)
Al Capone
“ruled over Chicago” Extortionist
J. Scott Fitzgerald
” The Great Gatsby”
“The beautiful and the damned”
“The side of paradise”
Ernest Hemingway
- very wealthy writer
- lived in Paris, Habannah keywest
- Committed suicide( used the same pistol his father used to commit suicide)
- ” A farewell to arms”
- “The sun also rises”
- “For whom the bell tops”
Sinclair Lewis
- from Minnesota
- “Main Street”
- “Babbit”
George Bellows
“realism”
“Ashcan” school
Loui Armstrong
Jazz and blues singer
Charles Dupont
- founder of Chemical Industry
- Delaware
Al Jolson
star in first taking movie in the world, Jazz singer ( painted his face black)
Charles Lindberg
-first man to fly solo across the atlantic ocean
“ Spirit of St.Louis”
Richard Byrd
Admiral-First to fly to north and south pole ( was not true but everyone believed him)
Jack Dempsey
Boxing-greatest boxer
Babe Ruth
Baseball famous
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1932-1945 The man -Groton school Eleanor Roosevelt ( distant cousin) "Assistant secretary of the navy" " Bank Holiday" "fire-side chats" "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" "Hundred Days"
Harry Hopkins
2nd most powerful person
“adviser to the the president”
-best friend, most trusted adviser
-Invisible person - had tremendous judgment of people and ideas.
Joseph Stalin
-Professional bank robber
1924-1953 dictator for over 30 years ( Russia?)
:purges , killed 10 million
“Purge -show Trial”
General Douglas MacArthur
War with Asia-Pacific Region