PEOPLE
PEOPLE
PEOPLE
PEOPLE
PEOPLE
100
- He was assassinated while president - space race – put a man on the moon -civil rights supporter -Bay of Pigs, Cuban missile crisis -stood up to the Soviet Union FEAR – missile gap -Peace Corps : longest lasting legacy
What is JFK?
100
-WWII former general -organizer of d-day -idea=interstate highway system - Domino Theory -brinkmanship
What is Dwight Eisenhower - IKE?
100
-made decision to drop the atomic bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki (finished WWII) - anti-communist - lost support when he fired McArthur during Korean War - Truman Doctrine – policy of containment
What is Harry Truman?
100
-“new deal” – his plan to fix the depression - President during WWII - very liberal ideas -gov’t. should help society get out of the great depression - only president to serve 4 terms
What is FDR?
100
-faire ideas - Ho-“trickle down” economics - laissez over dam = public works projects -gov’t. should not get involved in ending the great depression
What is Herbert Hoover?
200
-took over after Kennedy’s assassination -put American soldiers in Vietnam – Gulf of Tonkin - The Great Society = Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start (put us in debt)
What is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
-first president to visit China - Détente: the relaxation of tensions between the United States and Soviet Union/China -blamed for covering up the Watergate scandal -resigned from presidency - Vietnamization - SALT I – agreement to reduce nuclear weapons with soviets
What is Richard Nixon?
200
-took over when Nixon resigned -pardoned Nixon - Whip Inflation Now – plan to battle Stagflation - Helsinki Accords: agreement signed in 1975 by Ford and the leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact signed this agreement where they agreed to recognize the borders of Eastern Europe set up at the end of WWII and the Soviets promised to uphold basic human rights
What is Gerald Ford?
200
communist leader of Soviet Union during WWII -killed citizens who opposed him - Started 5 year plan to industrialize the Soviet Union
What is Joseph Stalin?
200
-Camp David Accords – Peace between Isreal and Egypt -Iran-hostage crisis – he lost support because of this -anti-communist - Oil Embargo w/ OPEC - SALT II – but never passed “peanut farmer”
What is Jimmy Carter?
300
-senator -accused communists of living in America - Took cases to TV and never provided proof = lost support
What is Joseph McCarthy?
300
-fascist dictator in Italy - Anti- Communist - Believed in Glorifying Italy - Killed - called Il Duce
What is Benito Mussolini?
300
-FDR’s military advisor Marshall Plan -organized the relief effort and rebuilding of economies in Europe after WWII
What is George Marshall?
300
-served one term as president -Operation Desert Storm – Persian Gulf War -continued Reagan’s conservative policies - broke his “no new taxes” promise
What is George H. W. Bush?
300
- Led Conservative Revolution - Reagannomics: cut taxes and raise interest rates -tried to pull u.s. out of debt (ending up increasing debt w/ defense spending) -former actor
What is Ronald Reagan?
400
-lawyer for brown family in Brown v. Board of Edu. - NAACP - lead attorney - First African American on the Supreme Court
What is Thurgood Marshall?
400
-nation of Islam / Black Muslims -black nationalism -believed in violence to get the black message out - symbol of the black power movement
What is Malcolm X?
400
first African American baseball player
What is Jackie Robinson?
400
-executed for spying on U.S. for communists -Manhattan project – accused of passing atomic secrets
What is Julius and Ethel Rosenburg?
400
-major civil rights reformer -nonviolence- passive resistance -“I have a dream” speech - Led Montgomery bus boycott - peaceful organization: SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Committee), SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), CORE (Congress for Racial Equality)
What is Martin Luther King Jr.?
500
-prime minister of Great Britain during World War II -“iron curtain” speech - stood up to Hitler in the battle of Britain - Yalta Conference (Poland) - Potsdam Conference (Germany)
What is Winston Churchill?
500
-American general in the pacific theater, war hero-fired by Truman over the Korean War - WWII: lost soldiers in the Bataan Death March in Philippines
What is Douglas MacArthur?
500
Soviet leader after Stalin, Cuban Missile Crisis -constructed Berlin wall
What is Nikita Khrushchev?
500
-head of the Supreme Court justice -led court in many civil rights changes -Brown v. Board -JFK’s assassination – The Warren Commission
What is Earl Warren?
500
-refused to give up seat to a white man -Montgomery bus boycott
What is Rosa Parks?