SAT写作：名人生平素材汇总_SAT写作

SAT写作：名人生平素材汇总

　　Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

　　During the Battle of Britain, the children of King George VI delivered a radio address to British children who had been evacuated abroad. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, like their parents, weathered the dark days of World War II in Britain.

　　Gerald Ford

　　Nine days before the fall of Saigon, President Ford spoke on the resignation of South Vietnamese President Thieu. Soon after, the United States launched a massive helicopter evacuation of tens of thousands of anticommunist South Vietnamese and the last few Americans remaining in the country.

　　Mohandas Gandhi

　　In 1931, Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, was released from prison to attend the London Round Table Conference on India as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress.

　　Gorbachev

　　As leader of the U.S.S.R., Mikhail Gorbachev was a great force for peace, even at the cost of the Soviet governments downfall after 74 years in power.

　　Adolf Hitler

　　A few days before his occupation of the Sudetenland, a confident Hitler addressed a Nazi rally at Berlins Sportpalast stadium, and reassured the crowd that if war came with Britain and France the German Wehrmacht would be victorious.

　　Pope John Paul II

　　In 1995, the pope addressed the United Nations on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Reaffirming his support of the ideals and goals of the U.N., he praised the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and called for the U.N. to become the moral center of a family of nations.