Presidents
Supported research for "Star Wars" missile defense system. Signed a treaty with Gorbachev to eliminate other missiles. Wife worked to curb drug/alcohol abuse in young people. Former president of the Screen Actors Guild.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
In 1990, he ordered Iraq's military forces into Kuwait, one of the richest oil-producing countries in the Middle East. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops were then sent into the region
Who is Saddam Hussein?
She was the first woman appointed as a Supreme Court Justice. She was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
He became the leader of the Civil Rights Movement on the 1950s and 1960s. His belief in peaceful protest led to such actions as lunch counter sit-ins, boycotts, and the March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr?
In July 1969 he and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. landed the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle on the moon. Upon taking his first step onto the moon, this astronaut said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Ordered American forces to the Middle East to drive the Iraqi army out of Kuwait. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he established full diplomatic relations with all of the newly formed democracies.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
He introduced changes in the Soviet Union that moved the country away from the communist system that strictly controlled the economy. He also supported changes that allowed other political parties besides the Communist Party.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
She was a U.S. astronaut who became the first American woman to travel in space. 1983, she was one of five astronauts who made a six-day flight on the space shuttle Challenger
Who is Sally Ride?
He became the first black person to play modern major league baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
President Harry S. Truman appointed him to head the U.N. military forces during the Korean War. Truman opposed this general's idea to expand the war into China. Other disagreements led to his dismissal as commander.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
He won praise for helping to bring about the Camp David Agreements between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. He persuaded the two leaders to settle many of their nation's long-standing differences.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This revolutionary leader established a dictatorship in Cuba in 1959 and made Cuba the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere.
Who is Fidel Castro?
She is credited with founding the women's liberation movement in the U.S. She also helped found the National Organization of Women (NOW) to help fight for equal rights for women.
Who is Betty Friedan?
This person was one of the most influential African American leaders of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a member of the Nation of Islam, commonly called the Black Muslims.
Who is Malcolm X?
In 1949, his Communist forces defeated Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and ended a long civil war in China. He made China a Communist nation.
Who is Mao Zedong?
He angered many Americans by pardoning Nixon for all federal crimes. He offered amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters of the Vietnam War.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This revolutionary leader became the president of North Vietnam in 1954. In the 50s and 60s his communist government sent troops into South Vietnam to overthrow the anti-communist government there.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
1955, this African American woman was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. One year later the Supreme Court declared segregated seating on the buses unconstitutional.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He organized farm workers in California into labor unions in order to improve wages and working conditions. Strikes and boycotts were carried out against grape and lettuce growers.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
He was the President of the U.S. at the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. This President ordered a blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, to stop the Soviets from establishing nuclear missile bases 90 miles south of Florida.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
He visited China in 1972 to help improve relations between the two nations. In 1973 the U.S. withdrew all of its troops from South Vietnam. 1974 he resigned from office during the Watergate Scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
In 1979, a revolution in Iran overthrew the Shah there, who was an ally of the U.S. Islamic fundamentalists led by this man took over the government, which became strongly anti-American.
Who is the Ayatollah Khomeini?
This marine biologist wrote a book in 1962 called Silent Spring, which called attention to the wasteful destructive use of pesticides. She warned that pesticides poison the food supply of animals and pose a risk to humans as well.
Who is Rachel Carson?
He was a lawyer for the NAACP who argued the Brown v. Board of Ed. Supreme Court case. He later became the first African American Supreme Court justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
He became one of the most controversial figures in American politics while serving as a U.S. senator during the 1950s. He charged that Communists had infiltrated the State Department and U.S. Army.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?