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Alger Hiss
An American govt official accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union
George Marshall
Secretary of State during the Truman administration
John F. Kennedy
Was assassinated; promoted himself as a war hero
Jackie Robinson
The first African American to play Major League Baseball
Fidel Castro
Cuban dictator; overthrew the corrupt Fulgencio Batista
Joseph McCarthy
Launched a campaign to uncover those in the Communist Party
Mao Zedong(Tse Tung)
Communist leader during China civil war
Ngo Dinh Diem
President of South Vietnam (Anti-Communist)
Douglas MacArthur
Led the US during the Korean War
Ho Chi Minh
President of North Vietnam (Communist)
Richard Nixon
Apollo 11; over HUAC
Martin Luther King. Jr
Led the movement to end segregation in the US; was later assassinated at his hotel
Julius Rosenberg
Was a communist spy in the United States who was eventually caught for spying
Harry Truman
President during the Korean War
Thomas Dewey
Ran against Truman and lost
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President who supported Diem(anti-communism) in the Vietnam war
Rosa Parks
Refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man
Winston Churchill
Gave a speech about the “iron curtain” in Europe
Billy Graham
Preacher and had his own host show
Chiang Kai-Shek
Nationalist leader of the China civil war
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Leader who made an agreement with Kennedy about the missiles in Cuba
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