Chapter 23: Postwar Era

Civil Rights

100

This woman was arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man.

Rosa Parks

200

This Baptist pastor led the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Martin Luther King Jr.

300

This athlete broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

Jackie Robinson

400

This Soviet leader confronted the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Nikita Khrushchev

500

This was the leader of the Communists in the civil war in China

Mao Zedong

Cold War

100

This Soviet spy helped pass atomic bomb secrets to the USSR.

Julius Rosenberg

200

This former State Department official was accused of giving secrets to a Soviet spy.

Alger Hiss

300

This senator led investigations searching for Communists in the U.S. government.

Joseph McCarthy

400

This Cuban leader established a Communist government just 90 miles from Florida.

Fidel Castro

500

This Soviet leader faced the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Who is Nikita Khrushchev?

Presidents & Elections

100

This president expanded the New Deal with a program called the Fair Deal.

Harry Truman

200

This man won the 1952 presidential election.

Dwight Eisenhower

300

The Chicago Daily Tribune mistakenly printed a headline saying this candidate won the 1948 election.

Thomas Dewey

400

This Progressive Party candidate ran for president in 1948.

Henry Wallace

500

This man served as Eisenhower’s vice president.

Richard Nixon

Religion & Culture

100

This evangelist preached to millions through crusades and television.

Billy Graham

200

This future president created the Peace Corps.

John F Kennedy

300

This segregationist ran as the States’ Rights Party candidate in 1948.

Strom Thurmond

400

This U.S. program sent volunteers around the world to help developing countries.

Peace Corps

500

This conflict between the U.S. and USSR shaped politics, espionage, and nuclear tension after WWII.

What is the Cold War?