Cold War People

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