US History in the Modern World Final

Mao Zedong

founder of the CCP who earned victory in the Chinese Civil War and set up an oppressive totalitarian regime

Dwight Eisenhower

5-star general who was president in 1950’s who promoted dynamic conservatism and oversaw an era of great change

Douglas MacArthur

5-star general who led military forces into Korea before being fired for criticizing how Truman handled the war

John F. Kennedy

US president in the early 60’s who sought to improve lives of poor Americans and US relations with Latin America

Fidel Castro

Revolutionary leader who seized power in Cuba, the CIA tried unsuccessfully to kill him multiple times

Lyndon B. Johnson

US president who split his time between the Vietnam war and promoting programs to improve life in America

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Leader organized through southern churches to deliver a non-violent approach to civil rights reforms in America

Malcolm X

leader who believed (before going to Mecca) that separate and equal segregation was preferable to integration

Cesar Chavez

Latino leader who organized his activism around securing economic reforms that would help his people as workers and consumers

Jimmy Carter

US president who tried to deal with Stagflation in the 70’s while improving US and Latin American relations

Mohandas Gandhi

leader who organized boycotts and marches to end British Imperialism in India, his nonviolent approach worked

Jawaharal Nehru

1st Prime Minister of India who’s popularity let him achieve democracy, unity, and economic modernization

Nelson Mandela

1st black president of South Africa: A nation that was purposefully kept divided by an oppressive system of racial segregation

Yassar Arafat

1st chairman of PLO, which sought to promote Arab’s reaqusation of the Holy Land