AP US History Flashcards
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| 404575672 | A. Philip Randolph | America's leading black labor leader who called for a march on Washington D.C. to protest factories' refusals to hire African Americans, which eventually led to President Roosevelt issuing an order to end all discrimination in the defense industries. | 0 | |
| 404575673 | Douglass MacArthur | prominent leader in Pacific theater during WWII and was involved with many battles in the Philippines, after which he traveled to Australia for safe being and final battle with US Missouri ship after atomic bombing of Japan | 1 | |
| 404575674 | Chester W. Nimitz | Commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Pacific and brilliant strategist of the "island hopping" campaign | 2 | |
| 404575675 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2--leader of troops in Africa and commander in DDay invasion-elected president-president during integration of Little Rock Central High School | 3 | |
| 404575676 | Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition | 4 |