Study guide (people)

Question 1

Charles Lindbergh:

Answer 1

• The first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
• Flew from NY to Paris.

Question 2

Amelia Earhart:

Answer 2

• First woman to fly across the Atlantic.
• Disappeared mysteriously when trying to fly all the way around the world.
• Disappeared in the Pacific Ocean.

Question 3

Babe Ruth:

Answer 3

• Reporters are only focusing on the good things.
• Make families happy.
• Actually a womanizer and not a good guy.
• Reporters can’t report on it though.
• Workout regime: drinking a few beers, eating a few hot dogs, and going to practice

Question 4

Pullman Porters:

Answer 4

• People who worked as porters on the Pullman train cars.
• Would take luggage, make the bed, tell you when to eat and where… basically did everything and anything while you were on the train.

Question 5

Herbert Hoover:

Answer 5

• His big problem was that people’s hard-earned money is gone into the tax income.
• He is an economist.

Question 6

FDR:

Answer 6

• Has a “New Deal” that would bring them out of the depression.
• Main president during the depression.

Question 7

John J. Pershing:

Answer 7

• The United States #1 General.

Question 8

“Preparedness Advocates”:

Answer 8

• Time of peace.
• Prepare army just in case
• During WW1

Question 9

Warren G. Harding:

Answer 9

• President after Wilson.
• After War has closed.
• Return to normalcy.
• Serves a couple of years, but has heart attack and dies.
• One of our greatest presidents.

Question 10

Calvin Coolidge:

Answer 10

• Takes over after Harding dies.
• Known as quiet Cal.
• Very popular during roaring 20’s

Question 11

Teddy Roosevelt:

Answer 11

• Founded the Bull Moose party.
• Great White fleet.
• Won nobel peace prize.

Question 12

Czar Nicholas

Answer 12

• was the last Russian emperor (1894–1917)
• who, with his wife, Alexandra, and their children, was killed by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution

Question 13

Joseph Stalin:

Answer 13

• Took power from the Czar shortly after WW1 started along with Trotsky and Lenin

Question 14

Vladimir Lenin:

Answer 14

• Leader of Russia during WW1.
• His followers were called Bolsheviks.

Question 15

Kaiser Wilhelm:

Answer 15

Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire and the House of Hohenzollern’s 300-year reign in Prussia and 500-year reign in Brandenburg

Question 16

Woodrow Wilson:

Answer 16

• Entered the US into the war after Germany asked Mexico to attack us. (Zimmerman Letter)
• Wanted the war to end in peace unlike the other countries.
• He is a Democrat.
• Main president during WW1.
• A fan of the league of nations.
• Never joined b/c he was shot down by congress.