EOC review : People and groups

Orville and Wilbur Wright

• first to fly an airplane

• invented the first car

• developed the first rocket

• created the first helicopter

John F Kennedy (JFK)

• President during Cuban missile crisis

• President during World War II

• President during the Great Depression

• President during the Vietnam War

Marielitos

• Cubans that came to Miami during the Mariel boat lift in 1980

• A type of Cuban sandwich popular in Miami

• A group of Cuban artists who fled to the U.S. in the 1990s

• Cubans who migrated to Spain in the 1970s

New Immigrants

• catholic, poor, uneducated, from South and East Europe like Russia, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Greece

• wealthy, educated, from Western Europe like Germany and France

• middle-class, skilled, from North Europe like Sweden and Norway

• protestant, affluent, from Central Europe like Austria and Switzerland

Populist Party

• People's Party, wanted to unite laboring men against the government controlled by banks, bimetallism

• A political party focused on the interests of the wealthy elite

• A party advocating for strict immigration controls and nationalism

• A movement promoting the abolition of all forms of government

Hitler

• Nazi leader of Germany during WWII

• Fascist leader of Italy during WWII

• Communist leader of the Soviet Union during WWII

• King of the United Kingdom during WWII

Henry Ford

• assembly line, car manufacturing

• steam engine innovation

• mass production of textiles

• automated farming techniques

Hiram Rhodes Revels

• First African American elected to Congress

• First African American governor

• First African American senator

• First African American mayor

Nikita Khrushchev

• Leader of USSR during Cuban missile crisis, gave Castro missiles

• President of the United States during the Cold War

• Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II

• Leader of China during the Cultural Revolution

Harry Truman

• President at the beginning of the Cold War, believed in the policy of containment for fighting communism

• President during World War I

• President who initiated the New Deal

• President who ended the Vietnam War