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Alger Hiss

An American govt official accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union

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George Marshall

Secretary of State during the Truman administration

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John F. Kennedy

Was assassinated; promoted himself as a war hero

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Jackie Robinson

The first African American to play Major League Baseball

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Fidel Castro

Cuban dictator; overthrew the corrupt Fulgencio Batista

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Joseph McCarthy

Launched a campaign to uncover those in the Communist Party

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Mao Zedong(Tse Tung)

Communist leader during China civil war

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Ngo Dinh Diem

President of South Vietnam (Anti-Communist)

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Douglas MacArthur

Led the US during the Korean War

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Ho Chi Minh

President of North Vietnam (Communist)

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Richard Nixon

Apollo 11; over HUAC

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Martin Luther King. Jr

Led the movement to end segregation in the US; was later assassinated at his hotel

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Julius Rosenberg

Was a communist spy in the United States who was eventually caught for spying

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Harry Truman

President during the Korean War

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Thomas Dewey

Ran against Truman and lost

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

President who supported Diem(anti-communism) in the Vietnam war

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Rosa Parks

Refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man

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Winston Churchill

Gave a speech about the “iron curtain” in Europe

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Billy Graham

Preacher and had his own host show

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Chiang Kai-Shek

Nationalist leader of the China civil war

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Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet Leader who made an agreement with Kennedy about the missiles in Cuba

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