how did Charles Augustus Lindbergh made an impact on u.s history? please please help me!!?

Question

i just wanted to know how charles augustus lindbergh made an impact on u.s history by his nonstop flight across the atlantic ocean? or i could use some facts about him....thank you very much

Answer 1

Read The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

Answer 2

I believe he made a big impact on history because he was the first person to fly across the Atlantic nonstop. This made it easier for people travelling across the ocean. It meant less time. He also dropped out of college at an early age. His family had money and he didn't care about an education, but just wanted to fly.

Answer 3

Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), American aviator, engineer, and Pulitzer Prize winner, who was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.

Answer 4

Charles A. Lindbergh's father was a US congressman and his family was well off, but not really rich. Lindbergh's parents split when he was little and he was raised by his strong-willed and well educated mother. He often moved from place to place and parent to parent and so had a lonely childhood with few friends and remained a fairly shy and reclusive person for the rest of his life.

His most famous act, of course, is being the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from the US to France. He did this in May 1927 in his single-engine airplane named the Spirit of Saint Louis. The famous event made him a world-wide celebrity and Time Magazine's first ever 'Man of the Year'. He was argueably the most popular and famous person in the world at that time.

Despite the fame of the trans-Atlantic flight, it is not the biggest or loggest impact on US history by Lindbergh. Many other flyers had been making the attempt and if Lindbergh had not made it, somebody else would have soon. Where Lindbergh had a much larger impact (though less publicized) is in the way that he used his fame to develop and promoted air travel in the US afterwards. He traveled around the US helping to establish local airports and he was a founding member of the Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) company which was one of the first airlines to offer passenger service from coast to coast (it later turned into TWA, one of the world's largest airlines). In this regard, Lindbergh can be considered one of the pioneers and driving forces behind passenger air travel in the US.

Other major achievements and milestones during his life included winning a Pultizer prize for the book he wrote about the trans-Atlantic flight, helping to develop a proto-type for an artificial heart, helping getting funding and recognition for early US rocket scientist Robert Goddard, helping pioneer the use of aviation in archeaology, and (later in life) becoming a major conservationist and a leader of the World Wildlife Federation. In 1929, he married Anne Morrow, the daughter of the US Ambassador to Mexico and they eventually had six children.

Another, less happy, but very famous event in Lindbergh's life was the kidnapping and murder of his first son, Charles Junior, in 1932. Because of his fame, they were hounded by the press and photos of his dead son's body was printed on the covers of newspapers. This made Lindbergh very bitter in his view of the press for the remainder of his life. Bruno Hauptmann was eventually tried and later executed for the crime, although there has been some debate ever since about his actual level of involvement.

In regards to some of the posters above claims about his activities prior to World War 2. Lindbergh was sent to Germany before the war at the request of the US government to study the state of the German Air Force. It is true that Lindbergh later opposed the US getting involved in the war when Germany invaded Poland and France because he felt it was not the US's fight and would bring the US down - but it must be remembered though that the majority of American's opposed intervention at that point.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh supported the US entry into the war and attempted to enlisted in the Army Air Corps, but was prevented by President Roosevelt who still resented his earlier opposition. None the less, Lindbergh did volunteer to be used as a guinea pig for the medical effects of high altitude flight tests and as an equipment consultant helping maintain aircraft in the South Pacific, he secretly flew several combat missions and even shot down a Japanese fighter.

It is certainly true that Lindbergh (who was a very proud man) never came out and admitted he was wrong and had mis-judged the Nazi threat, but he was never a Nazi, nor did he subscribe to Nazi ideals. Roth's book (mentioned above) above is a sci-fi book not based on anything real (in fact, it has Lindbergh as president of the United States). I am certainly not saying Lindbergh was flawless - he could be overly proud and arrogant at times and he was not the world's greatest husband (he could be cold and distant and had at least one major affair), but he was not a Nazi or traitor.

Lindbergh died at his home in Hawaii in 1972 and is buried there.

Answer 5

i think of he made a great have an result on on historic previous thinking the actuality that he became as quickly as the accepted guy or woman to fly around the Atlantic nonstop. This made it much less perplexing for persons traveling around the sea. It meant much less time. He additionally dropped out of school at an early age. His significant different and young ones had funds and he did no longer care approximately an education, even if in basic terms wanted to fly.

Answer 6

One part of the answer is, years later, after he became a celebrity, he became a white supermacist pro-Nazi and did everything he could to keep the USA unprepared for WW II. He took part in many rallies and gave speeches saying that the USA should not increase its army and should not take part in the war.

Thanks to him the USA was much less prepared to fight in WW II.

Answer 7

first he was an inventor.
he was the first to fly across the atlantic ocean.
he was a NAZI

Answer 8

Wikipedia is always a good start.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh

Answer 9

Didn't he make that blimp that could carry alot of people in it that blew up?