Important+People


 * Important People**
 * **Harry S. Truman-** He was the president after WWII, and acted very generously with other countries.
 * **Branch Rickey-** Jackie Robinson's manager, Rickey had the idea of breaking the color barrier in baseball.
 * **Jackie Robinson-** He Was a baseball player who broke the color barrier in baseball, he was the first black to play on a major league team.
 * **Vladimir Lenin-**Lenin introduced communism to the the Soviet Union.
 * **Joseph Stalin-** Joseph Stalin was the dictator in Russia, many people feared him.
 * **Winston Churchill-** Prime Minister of Great Britain
 * **Chaim Weizmann-** He was a scientist, and Israel's first president.
 * **Ralph Bunche-** Bunche was an American peacemaker, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, helped unite the Israelites and the Arabs.
 * **Thomas E. Dewey-** Ran against Harry Truman for president in the 1948 election. He thought that he was going to win as did America. It was a huge shock when Harry Truman won in the end, and became president again.
 * **Kim II Sung-** He was the North Korean leader in the Korean War, he was for communism.
 * **Syngman Rhee-** He was the South Korean leader in the Korean War, he was educated in America and had a poorly trained army.
 * **Ho Chi Minh**- North Vietnamese leader in the Vietnam War
 * **Senator Joseph McCarthy-** Joseph McCarthy was known for being dishonest, and unfair. He accused many innocent people of communist activity.
 * **Margaret Chase Smith**- She was another senator who spoke out in congress about how she strongly disagreed with McCarthy.
 * **Edward R. Murrow-** He made a TV film that showed how horrible Joseph McCarthy really was.
 * **Ralph Flanders-** spoke out about how bad McCarthy was.
 * **Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike)-**He was a very popular president during the 1950s, a time of incredible change. He was the first Republican president that America had in many years.
 * **Premier Nikita Khrushchev-** 1953: He was the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, lead the beginning of the arms race with America.
 * **Premier Gorbachev**-leader of Russia after Khrushchev
 * **Chiang Kai-Shek-** Leader of China, thrown out by Mao Zedong
 * **William Levitt-** He came up with the idea of the suburbs; large groups of houses near cities. Mass production of housing was used, plus Levitt produced his own resources which caused the houses to be affordable.
 * **Kemmons Wilson-** He started the idea of motels and created the Holiday Inn chain; wanted to make motels more reasonable and family friendly.
 * **Dick and Mac McDonald-** Came up with the idea of a fast-food restaurant called McDonald's, made lots of money and served customers quickly and efficiently.
 * **Ray Kroc-** Helped with the franchising of McDonald's since it was becoming such a popular restaurant. Soon, McDonald's were everywhere because of Ray Kroc.He helped make McDonalds an even better restaurant.
 * **Charlie Houston** - He was an expert in the laws of the Constitution, was the dean at Harvard Law School. He fought for equal rights with blacks.
 * **Thurgood Marshall-** He was a student of Charlie Houston, fought for Brown in the Brown v. Board of Education.
 * **John W. Davis-** He was the lawyer for the Board of Education in the Brown v. Board of Education case.
 * **Mike King-** The father of Martin Luther King Jr., he was also a minister.
 * **Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -** He was a minister like his father, he was an extremely important fighter for black rights.
 * **John F. Kennedy-** He was the youngest president since Theodore Roosevelt, had to deal with Cuba and Russia, and influenced the people in many ways.
 * **Rachel Carson**- She wrote about science and the natural world; her books boosted America's awareness level about the environmental problems that were affecting the earth.
 * **Melba Pattillo Beals-** was one of the nine black student who attended Little Rock's Central High School. Pattillo wrote a book called //Warriors Don't Cry// about her experiences at the mainly-white school.
 * **Freedom Riders**- Rode a bus south to try to reduce segregation, white southerners tried to burn a bus but luckily the blacks got out in time.
 * **Rosa Parks-** In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move for a white man on a segregated bus. She was arrested and put in jail.
 * **Little Rock Nine-** The first nine black students who attended Little Rock Central High School.
 * **Emmit Till-** Was the boy from Chicago that whistled at a white women. Later in the night, when he was staying at his uncles, two white men came and beat him, shot him which killed him. Then they threw him in a lake which caused him to drown.
 * **Lyndon Baines Johnson**- became president when JFK was assassinated, created the Great Society which was an expanded form of the New Deal and the New Frontier.
 * **Malcolm X-** A black leader who had once accepted violence, but changed his thoughts later in life.
 * **Fidel Castro-** The communist leader of Cuba who was hated by Cuban citizens as well as Americans.
 * **Jimmy Lee Jackson**- A young, black man who was shot in the stomach by the police. His murder resulted in the march from Selma to Montgomery.
 * **Lieutenant Calley**- Lead the massacre at My Lai where many Vietnam citizens were killed. Calley himself killed 109 of the 347 civilians killed.
 * **Betty Friedan**-Wrote //The// //Feminist Mystique//, a book that contained the ideas that all people should be able to develop their potential and get worthy jobs in society.
 * **Phyllis Schlafly-** A spokeswoman for the traditionalists, women who thought women should stay home and not work.
 * **Cesar Chavez-** Wanted to help mistreated farmers, led the Farm Workers Association.
 * **Richard Wright-** Wrote the books //Native Son// and //Black Boy.//
 * **John Henry Hammond Sr.-** Discovered many amazing musicians during his time including Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, and Aretha Franklin.
 * **Billie Holiday-** An amazing black jazz singer discovered by Hammond.
 * **Bob Dylan-** The most influential musician during the Vietnam Era.
 * **Beatles-** The most important, popular musicians during their time.
 * **James Earl Carter**- was the 39th president. He was governor of Georgia and went to U.S Naval Academy. He was soft-spoken and very religious. He was a democrat and was for civil rights.
 * **Lee Harvey Oswald-** President Kennedy's assassin
 * **Jack Ruby**-Killed Lee Harvey Oswald
 * **James Earl Ray**- Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassin
 * **Saddam Hussein-** dictator of Iraq, tried to take over Kuwait, America sent troops to stop the aggression, resulted in the Persian Gulf War.