STAAR Review: Historical Figures

Commander of U.S. forces in Sicily and North Africa

Chief of Staff and adviser to Roosevelt during WWII, organizer of victory 

This president ordered the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan

President who reduced taxes and regulations to encourage business activity--reagonomics

Conducted hearings to identify communists he claimed infiltrated the U.S. government

President during the 1920s who called for a return to normalcy, less foreign involvement

Mexican-American Civil Rights activist, WWII veteran, and surgeon, made American GI Forum 

President served 4 terms and took the U.S. out of the Great Depression with his New Deal policy

Commander of the Pacific Fleet during WWII, commander at the Battle of Midway

World War II general selected by Eisenhower to lead U.S. forces into France after Normandy 

Published Democracy in America and identified five critical American values

Conservative activist who campaigned against the Equal Rights Amendment

This person refused to give up their seat on a white section of a bus and was arrested

This president supported space programs but was embarrassed at the Bay of Pigs Invasion

Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WWI by Woodrow Wilson

This man became the first African-American U.S. President

President who supported NAFTA and international trade, had an impeachment scandal

She became the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court

She wrote the Feminine Mystique and urged women to fight for their equal rights

This U.S. General was Supreme Allied Commander of the D-Day invasion

President who reopened relations with China, faced impeachment for the Watergate Crisis

Fought to eliminate racism against Mexican Americans, organized farm workers in California

President during WWI, proposed the Fourteen Points 

Commander of the U.S. Army in the Pacific during WWII, commander of U.S. forces in Korea

Reverend and Civil Rights leader who gave a famous speech "I Have a Dream"