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16 Cards in this Set
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Harry Truman
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President after Roosevelt died
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Chaing Kai-shek
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Chinese Civil War
led Nationalists |
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Mao Zedong
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Chinese Civil War
led Communists |
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Douglas MacArthur
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America's top hero of the Pacific in World War II
in charge of the UN military forces after war |
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Dwight Eisenhower
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President, 1953-1961
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John F. Kennedy
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President, 1961-1963
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Ho Chi Minh
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Communist leader in Vietnam
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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Anti-Communist President of Vietnam
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Fidel Castro
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Communist
1959 - overthrew government of Cuba |
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Fulgenico Batista y Zaldivar
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Dictator of Cuba
overthrown by Castro |
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Henry Wallace
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Secretary of Commerce
fired by Truman for Pro-Soviet position ran as Progressive in 1948 |
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Strom Thurmond
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Senator from South Carolina
ran as "Dixiecrat" in 1948 |
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Thomas Dewey
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ran as Republican in 1948
mistakenly declared winner by Chicago Daily Tribune |
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Alger Hiss
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accused of passing secret documents to Soviets during Red Scare
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Richard Nixon
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Congressman whose work eventually convicted Hiss and sent him to jail
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Joseph McCarthy
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closely associated with Red Scare of 1950s
made accusations that others were involved with Communist activities |
