Civil Rights
This woman was arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man.
Rosa Parks
This Soviet spy helped pass atomic bomb secrets to the USSR.
Julius Rosenberg
This president expanded the New Deal with a program called the Fair Deal.
Harry Truman
This evangelist preached to millions through crusades and television.
Billy Graham
This Baptist pastor led the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This former State Department official was accused of giving secrets to a Soviet spy.
Alger Hiss
This man won the 1952 presidential election.
Dwight Eisenhower
This future president created the Peace Corps.
John F Kennedy
This athlete broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
Jackie Robinson
This senator led investigations searching for Communists in the U.S. government.
Joseph McCarthy
The Chicago Daily Tribune mistakenly printed a headline saying this candidate won the 1948 election.
Thomas Dewey
This segregationist ran as the States’ Rights Party candidate in 1948.
Strom Thurmond
This Soviet leader confronted the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Nikita Khrushchev
This Cuban leader established a Communist government just 90 miles from Florida.
Fidel Castro
This Progressive Party candidate ran for president in 1948.
This U.S. program sent volunteers around the world to help developing countries.
Peace Corps
This was the leader of the Communists in the civil war in China
Mao Zedong
This Soviet leader faced the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This man served as Eisenhower’s vice president.
Richard Nixon
This conflict between the U.S. and USSR shaped politics, espionage, and nuclear tension after WWII.
What is the Cold War?