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| Warren G. Harding | elected President in 1920. He favored laissez-faire economics and was pro-business. His administration was marked by many scandals. |
| Calvin Coolidge | became President when Harding died. He was probably the most pro-business, laissez-faire president in our history. |
| Herbert Hoover | elected President in 1928, he was pro-business and supported laissez-faire. He was President when the Great Depression began. |
| Henry Ford | developed the moving assembly line to produce automobiles more quickly and more cheaply. |
| Charles Lindbergh | first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | elected in 1932, he created the New Deal to fight the Great Depression. He was also our president during most of WWII. |
| Frances Perkins | first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet. She was appointed Secretary of Labor by FDR. |
| Dr. Francis Townsend | critic of FDR who proposed the revolving pension fund to give Americans over age 60 $200 per month if they would retire and spend all $200 each month. |
| Father Charles Coughlin | radio priest who was critical of FDR's New Deal. He favored nationalizing the banks and was anti-Semitic. |
| Huey Long | Louisiana senator who criticized FDR and proposed the Share Our Wealth program. |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist leader of Italy from 1922 into WWII. |
| Adolf Hitler | Nazi dictator of Germany from 1933-1945 who led Germany into WWII. He was anti-Semitic and began the genocide of the Jews in Europe. |
| Winston Churchill | British leader during WWII. He was a member of the Big Three with Stalin and FDR. |
| Josef Stalin | Soviet leader during WWII and the early Cold War. He was a member of the Big Three with FDR and Churchill. He also set up the Berlin Blockade. |
| General Douglas MacArthur | led American forces in the island hopping in the Pacific during WWII. Later led the occupation of Japan and led UN forces during the early part of the Korean War until fired by Truman. |
| Harry S. Truman | became president in 1945 after FDR's death. He made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and led the U.S. into the Cold War. |
| Dwight Eisenhower | Supreme Allied commander during D-day. He later was elected President in 1952 and 1956. He sent federal troops to Little Rock to enforce school integration. |
| Chiang Kai-shek | led Nationalist forces in China against the communists. He was forced to leave China and set up a government on Taiwan in 1949. |
| Mao Zedong | communist leader in China. He drove out Chiang and became the leader of China in 1949. |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | couple accused, convicted, and executed for selling atomic secrets to the Soviets in the 1950s. |
| Joseph McCarthy | one of the leaders of the Red Scare after WWII. He falsely accused many Americans of being communists and ruined their reputations and careers. |
| Nikita Khrushchev | became Soviet leader after Stalin's death. He built the Berlin Wall and was the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| John F. Kennedy | American President who created the Peace Corps, sent advisors to Vietnam, confronted the Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. |
| Fidel Castro | communist leader of Cuba from 1959 to the present. |
| Ho Chi Minh | North Vietnamese communist leader and nationalist who led his country in wars against Japan, France, and the U.S. |
| Rosa Parks | African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama which led to the bus boycott. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | led the bus boycott in Montgomery in 1955-56 and became a nationally recognized civil rights leader until his death in 1968. He favored the use of non-violent tactics. |
