Communist dictator of the Soviet Union during WW2?
Joseph Stalin
He became the first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature?
Sinclair Lewis
Henry Ford introduced the model T
1908
President who attempted to buy Cuba
Franklin Pierce
the military commander sent to stop the raid at Harper's Ferry
Robert E. Lee
Fascist dictator who led Italy into WW2
Benito Mussolini
Wrote the Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sinking of the Titanic
1912
The first president since John Adams to make a personal appearance before Congress
Woodrow Wilson
Earned the nickname "Stonewall"
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Winston Churchill
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this book portrayed the dreadful abuses of slave life.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Wright brothers made the first successful powered flight?
1903
His economic stimulus plan was knows as the New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt
General who led the infamous "March to the Sea."
Leader of the Free French government
Man who won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936?
Jesse Owens
Panama Canal opened for use
1914
Youngest man to ever become president
Teddy Roosevelt
He was named the supreme Allied commander in Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American general sent to fortify the Philippines against the Japanese invasion?
Douglas MacArthur
Invented basketball in 1891
James Naismith
The full date of Black Tuesday, the day the bottom fell out of the stock market.
October 29, 1929
Only man in history to serve first as president, and then as chief justice of the United States.
William Howard Taft
The American WW1 troops were often referred to as ___.
Doughboys