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Thomas Edison • Lighting • Mechanical use of electricity Alexander Graham Bell • Telephone • Telephone service Jane Addams • Settlement House • Hull House • Chicago, IL Chief Joseph • Nez Perce • Try to escape to Canada Booker T. Washington • • • • Born a slave Started Tuskegee Institute in Al Vocational education Accept social segregation now W.E.B. DuBois • Full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans • Founder of NAACP John D Rockefeller • • • • Captain of Industry Oil Had a monopoly Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie • Captain of industry - steel • Homestead Strike • Philanthropist Henry Ford • Captain of Industry - automobile • Assembly Line • Philanthropist Susan B. Anthony • Suffragist; 19th Amendment Woodrow Wilson • WWI and the 14 Points • League of Nations Wright Brothers • Invented airplane • Kitty Hawk, NC Guglielmo Marconi • Developed the radio David Sarnoff • The Broadcast Industry • NBC - Radio and TV Georgia O'Keeffe • Artist - Southwest and urban scenes F Scott Fitzgerald • Novelist - The Great Gatsby • Roaring Twenties - 1920’s John Steinbeck • Novelist - The Grapes of Wrath • Novel of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl Aaron Copland • Composer of uniquely American music George Gershwin • Composer uniquely American music Jacob Lawrence • African American artist • Harlem Renaissance • Great Migration Langston Hughes • African American poet • Harlem Renaissance Duke Ellington • African American Jazz musician • Harlem Renaissance Louis Armstrong • African American Jazz musician Bessie Smith • African American Blues singer • Harlem Renaissance Franklin D Roosevelt • President - Great Depression and WWII • Created the New Deal and Fireside Chats • Led US to victory over the Axis Eleanor Roosevelt • Wife of FDR • Worked for expanding women’s rights Adolph Hitler • Leader of Germany - Axis Power • Holocaust • WWII Benito Mussolini • Fascist leader of Italy - Axis Power • Dictator Hideki Tojo • Military dictator of Japan WWII Winston Churchill • Prime Minister United Kingdom - WWII • Battle of Britain – didn’t give in • Gave the “Iron Curtain” phrase to Cold War Joseph Stalin • Communist dictator of the Soviet Union • Ally in WWII • Enemy in Cold War Harry S. Truman • • • • US President at end of WWII Ordered Atomic Bomb on Japan Established the Marshall Plan Integrated the US Military in 1948 George C. Marshall • Chief of Staff in US Army during WWII • Secretary of State after WWII • Developed the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe and stop communism from spreading. Rosie the Riveter • Symbol of women working during WWII in the defense plants Rosa Parks • Arrested in Montgomery, AL for not giving up her seat. • Began the Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King, JR • Leader Civil Rights Movement • Civil Disobedience and Passive Resistance (non-violence) Freedom Riders • Civil Disobedience • Passive resistance (non-violence) • Broke Jim Crow Laws