Names Flashcards
1
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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- came from a powerful family
-sign a different treaty with Germany without provisions just peace( due to the USA rejecting the treaty of Versailles)
“mind your business”
2
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Wilson ( president)
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-Paralyzed , wife took over the government secretly
3
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Vladmir Lenin
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(1917) “red and whites”–> Civil rights ( Russian
4
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J. Edgar Hoover
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Founding director for over 50 years for the F.B.I. which was founded in 1924
5
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The Ki Klux Klan
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- Spreads to the north since many blacks move to the north.
- Expanded groups to go after Jews and Catholics
- Worst Riots were in Chicago
6
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Mexican- Americans
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1900-1920
- half million Mexicans fled to U.S.
- were illiterate
- worked for almost nothing
7
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Joseph Kennedy
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smuggler ( alcohol)
8
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Al Capone
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“ruled over Chicago” Extortionist
9
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J. Scott Fitzgerald
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” The Great Gatsby”
“The beautiful and the damned”
“The side of paradise”
10
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Ernest Hemingway
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- very wealthy writer
- lived in Paris, Habannah keywest
- Committed suicide( used the same pistol his father used to commit suicide)
- ” A farewell to arms”
- “The sun also rises”
- “For whom the bell tops”
11
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Sinclair Lewis
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- from Minnesota
- “Main Street”
- “Babbit”
12
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George Bellows
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“realism”
“Ashcan” school
13
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Loui Armstrong
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Jazz and blues singer
14
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Charles Dupont
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- founder of Chemical Industry
- Delaware
15
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Al Jolson
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star in first taking movie in the world, Jazz singer ( painted his face black)
