Key WWII and Civil Rights Leaders: U.S., Soviet, and Global Figures

Hideki Tojo

Japanese leader during Pearl Harbor and WWII

Winston Churchill

British prime minister who led resistance against Nazi Germany

Harry S. Truman

U.S. president who dropped atomic bombs and began containment policy

Dwight D. Eisenhower

WWII general (D-Day) and later U.S. president

John F. Kennedy

President during Cuban Missile Crisis; assassinated in 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson

Passed Civil Rights Act and expanded Vietnam War

Miles Davis

Influential jazz trumpeter; helped create cool jazz

Allen Ginsberg

Beat poet who wrote "Howl"

Benito Mussolini

Fascist dictator of Italy who allied with Nazi Germany in WWII

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany; led Nazis and caused WWII and the Holocaust

Jack Kerouac

Author of "On the Road"; Beat Generation leader

Billy Graham

Famous Christian evangelist

Dr. Benjamin Spock

Pediatrician who wrote influential parenting book

William J. Levitt

Built suburbs (Levittowns) after WWII

Joseph Stalin

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

George F. Kennan

Created containment policy against communism

Joseph McCarthy

Senator who led anti-communist Red Scare

Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet leader during Cuban Missile Crisis

A. Philip Randolph

Civil rights and labor leader who pushed for equality

Cesar Chavez

Led farm worker strikes and boycotts

Dolores Huerta

Labor activist; co-led farm worker movement

Thurgood Marshall

Lawyer in Brown v. Board; first Black Supreme Court justice

Rosa Parks

Refused bus seat; sparked Montgomery Bus Boycott

Martin Luther King Jr.

Led nonviolent civil rights movement

Malcolm X

Promoted Black empowerment and self-defense

Stokely Carmichael

Popularized "Black Power"

Betty Friedan

Wrote "The Feminine Mystique"; feminist leader

Gordon Hirabayashi

Challenged Japanese internment during WWII

Charles A. Lindbergh

Famous pilot who opposed entering WWII

Barry Goldwater

1964 conservative presidential candidate

Robert F. Kennedy

JFK's brother; civil rights supporter; assassinated

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