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| Sacco and Vanzetti | Italian immigrants and anarchists who were accused and convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence because of nativism |
| Ku Klux Klan | group who was against anyone who was not white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant |
| Warren G. Harding | conservative Republican president who favored laissez-faire economics and whose administration was marked by political scandals |
| Calvin Coolidge | conservative Republican president who was very pro-business and believed in laissez-faire economics |
| Herbert Hoover | conservative Republican president who was in office when the Great Depression began |
| Henry Ford | American technologist who developed the moving assembly line and cut the costs of production |
| Charles Lindbergh | first man to fly solo across the Atlantic |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | president who created the New Deal to deal with the Great Depression and who led the U.S. during World War II |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | first lady who worked to give Blacks more rights and later served on the United Nations commission concerned with human rights |
| Frances Perkins | first woman to serve on a presidential Cabinet; she was FDR's Secretary of Labor |
| Dr. Francis Townsend | critic of the New Deal who favored giving every retired person over 60 a monthly pension if they would spend it all each month |
| Father Charles Coughlin | radio priest who was critical of the New Deal, was anti-Semetic, and favored a Fascist system |
| Huey Long | critic of the New Deal who created a Share the Wealth program with high taxes on the wealthy to give all families a basic standard of living |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy who formed the Axis Powers with Hitler |
| Adolf Hitler | Nazi leader of Germany who was anti-Semetic and wanted to kill all the Jews in Europe |
| Winston Churchill | leader of Britain and member of the Big Three during World War II |
| Josef Stalin | leader of the USSR and member of the Big Three during World War II |
| Dougls MacArthur | leader of the ground forces during the U.S. island hopping campaign who later led UN forces during the Korean War |
| Harry S. Truman | became president with FDR's death. He made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan and led the U.S. into the Cold War |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | general who led the Allied forces during the D-day invasion. He later became president during the 1950s. |
| Chiang Kai-shek | leader of China who was defeated by Mao Zedong and was forced to set up a government on the island of Taiwan |
| Mao Zedong | communist Chinese leader who defeated Chiang Kai-shek and established the People's Republic of China |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | couple convicted of giving atomic bomb information to the Soviets. They were executed for their crimes. |
| Richard Nixon | U.S. president who began Vietnamization of the war in Vietnam |
| Joseph McCarthy | Wisconsin Senator who claimed to have a list of known communists and who accused many people in government of being communists until he was censured in 1954 |
| Nikita Khruschev | leader of the USSR after Josef Stalin who built the Berlin Wall and signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty |
| John F. Kennedy | president during the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis who created the Peace Corps and signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty |
| Fidel Castro | communist leader who took power in Cuba in 1959 |
| Ho Chi Minh | communist leader in Vietnam who fought for Vietnamese independence against the French, Japanese, and Americans |
| Rosa Parks | refused to give up her seat on a bus, which led to the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955-56 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | civil rights leader who believed in non-violent resistance as leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| Robert Kennedy | Attorney General who ordered federal marshals to protect James Meredith and the Freedom Riders |
| Malcolm X | African American leader who believed in black pride and was a leader in the Nation of Islam |
