William T. Sherman

Fierce Union General who wanted to break the South's fighting spirit.

President of the Union

His election led to several Southern states to secede

Freed the slaves

Thomas Edison

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The Wright Brothers

changed the way we traveled with their invention of the motorized airplane. This invention also changed the way we fought wars.

Alexander Graham Bell

Changed the way we communicated with the invention of the telephone.

George Washington Carver

Your SS teacher's favorite scientist.

Gave the world hundreds of ways to use peanuts. Crop rotation, and he also refused to be paid for his patents.

Charles Lindbergh

Flew non-stop over the Atlantic Ocean.

Became one of the first celebrities.

Babe Ruth

Made baseball the most popular sport in the world. His colorful personality along with the medium of radio, baseball became very popular.

Henry Ford

Improved mass production with the improvement of the assembly line.

Louis Armstrong

Father of Jazz

Herbert Hoover

President at the start of the Great Depression, he was very unpopular.

Margaret Mitchell

Duke Ellington

Gave the world Swing Music

Jesse Owens

Won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics!!

Langston Hughes

Famous African American Poet from the Harlem Renaissance

Hitler

Leader of the Nazis Party

Responsible for the systematic killing of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust

Joseph Stalin

Soviet Union Dictator during WWII

Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII

Hirohito

Japanese Emperor during WWII

Harry Truman

United States President who decided to drop the Atomic bombs during WWII.

Benito Mussolini

Dictator of Italy during WWII

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President who gave the U.S. the New Deal 

President during WWII