US History EOC - Significant People

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Commanded 1^st US Army during D-Day Invasion, lead liberation of Paris, won the Battle of the Bulge.

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Omar Bradley

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French political thinker and historian who came to the US to study our political and social nature. Identified 5 characteristics that set Americans apart: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, laissez-faire.

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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34th President. Prior to Presidency, served in WWII as commander of Allied Forces in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Promoted to General after D Day. Created the Interstate Highway System as President.

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Dwight Eisenhower

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Americans who volunteered to serve as pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the US entering the war.

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Flying Tigers

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Wrote The Feminine Mystic, co–founded NOW (National Organization of Women)

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Betty Friedan

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Mexican American physician and civil rights advocate who organized the American G.I. Forum (1948) initially to improve veteran benefits and enhance medical attention, but it soon expanded to address educational and vocational training, housing, public education, poll taxation, voter registration, hospitalization, and employment.

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Hector P. Garcia

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Leader of the Civil Rights Movement; preached nonviolent approach and demanded equal rights for African Americans Options: Rosa Parks, Lester Maddox, Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Commander of the U.S. Army in the Pacific in WWII

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Douglas MacArthur

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Chief of Staff that coordinated the war effort from Washington, D.C. in WWII

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George Marshall

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These American Indians were recruited by the military to encode, transmit, and decode messages; the Navajo language was used to develop a code that was not broken by the enemy in WWII.

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Navajo