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H. Ross Perot | is a successful Texas businessman who garnered third-party support for his bid at the U.S. Presidency in the 1990’s. |
Georgia O'Keefe | She became the most noted representational expressionist painter in America. Her most famous works concentrated on scenes of the southwest. |
George Marshall | He organized the CCC of the New Deal and implemented the Marshall Plan after World War II for the economic recovery of Europe. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his post-war efforts. |
Douglas MacArthur | He led troops that evicted the veterans who were camped in Washington DC protesting their treatment and conditions during the Great Depression; Commander of forces in the Far East during World War II |
Alfred Thayer Mahan | An admiral and naval historian whose theories on the relationship of sea power and world commerce influenced foreign policy development in the 1880’s and 1890’s. |
Henry Cabot Lodge | A Senator from Massachusetts supported American expansion as a way to increase national pride, spread civilizations, and thereby gain world power. |
Charles Lindbergh | He made aviation history when he flew the specially built airplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, nonstop from St. Louis to Paris in 1927. |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | A noted leader and clergyman; one of several African-Americans concerned with reforming American society and gaining equal rights by using civil disobedience or non-violent action. |
Watergate | A scandal involving the Richard Nixon administration that ended in Nixon’s resignation in 1974. The scandal involved a break-in, paid for by the Nixon campaign committee at the Democratic National Committee office complex in Washington, D.C. |
Fourteen Points | President Wilson's plan to achieve a lasting peace after World War I. This plan sought to reduce the risk of war through open covenants of peace, absolute freedom of navigation, removal of economic barriers to trade, as well as other political and economic points. |