US History EOC - Significant People

Commanded 1^st US Army during D-Day Invasion, lead liberation of Paris, won the Battle of the

Bulge

• Cesar Chavez

• Omar Bradley

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Glenn Curtiss

French political thinker and historian who came to the US to study our political and social nature. Identified 5 characteristics that sets Americans apart: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, laissez-faire.

• Alexis de Tocqueville

• WEB DuBois

• Upton Sinclair

• Estee Lauder

34^th President. Prior to Presidency, served in WWII as commander of Allied Forces in North Africa,

Sicily, and Italy. Promoted to General after D Day. Created the Interstate Highway System as

President.

• John F. Kennedy

• Harry truman

• George Marshall

• Dwight Eisenhower

Americans who volunteered to serve as pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the US entering the war.

• Glenn curtiss

• Charles Lindbergh

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Flying Tigers

Wrote The Feminine Mystic, co–founded NOW (National Organization of Women)

• Betty Friedan

• Phyllis Schlafly

• Jane Addams

• Dolores Huerta

Mexican American physician and civil rights advocate who organized the American G.I. Forum (1948) initially to improve veteran benefits and enhance medical attention, but it soon expanded to address educational and vocational training, housing, public education, poll taxation, voter registration, hospitalization, and employment.

• Cesar chavez

• Dolores Huerta

• Hector P. Garcia

• Roy Benavidez

Leader of the Civil Rights Movement; preached nonviolent approach and demanded equal rights for African Americans

• Rosa Parks

• Lester Maddox

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

Commander of the U.S. Army in the Pacific in WWII

• George Patton

• Douglas MacArthur

• Chester Nimitz

• Omar Bradley

Chief of Staff that coordinated the war effort from Washington, D.C. in WWII

• Douglas Mac Arthur

• George Patton

• Omar Bradley

• George Marshall

These American Indians were recruited by the military to encode, transmit, and decode messages; the Navajo language was used to develop a code that was not broken by the enemy in WWII

• Cherokee

• Navajo

• Apache

• Sioux