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Joseph McCarthy |
A US senator from Wisconsin, he became America's most prominent and aggressive red-hunter. He asserted that communists had infiltrated the US government, and gained popular support and political influence for his anti-communist campaign. |
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Paul Robeson |
He was academically and athletically successful and earned a law degree from Columbia. After practicing law briefly, he moved on to acting, where he thought he would suffer less racism. He was a strong political activist, especially against segregation. When he visited the Soviet Union and proclaimed a leftist political view, he rapidly lost popularity due to McCarthyism. |
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Clement Attlee |
He was elected British prime minister in 1945. Generally, he was pro-decolonization, including letting India and Malaysia go. |
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Jawaharlal Nehru |
He was the foremost Hindu negotiator in the discussion between Britain, the Hindus, and the Muslims regarding the division of India between the Hindus and Muslims. |
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Achmed Sukarno |
He was the leader of the Indonesian nationalist movement. |
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Ho Chi Minh |
He was the leader of the Viet Minh, Vietnam's most important nationalist group. |
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David Ben-Gurion |
He was the leader of the Zionist movement after WWII. |
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Gamal Abdel Nasser |
He was the leading opponent of the neo-colonial situation in Egypt. A military leader and part of the coup that took over Egypt, he was a nationalist, socialist, non-aligned, and foremost pro-economic development. |
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Thurgood Marshall |
He was a civil rights lawyer that worked for the NAACP. |
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Earl Warren |
He was the chief justice of the supreme court throughout much of the 1950s. Appointed by Eisenhower, the supreme court under his leadership sympathized with the civil rights movement. |
