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30 Cards in this Set
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Francis Gary Powers |
Piloted the U-2 spy plane that the USSR shot down and they captured him, releasing him for a trade |
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Mao Zedong |
Communist leader who led the communist takeover of China |
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Chiang Kai-shek |
Nationalist government leader of China who fled to Taiwan and slowly lost power to Zedong |
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Charles Hamilton Houston |
began an NAACP campaign to attack the concept of "separate but equal" along with Thurgood Marshall |
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
major civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968 |
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Malcolm X |
leader of the Black Muslims who offered black pride and defiance. At first he was against MLK Jr. but then made a trip and came back a changed man and starting cooperating with civil rights leaders. Assassinated by Black Power because he was a traitor |
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Thurgood Marshall |
Civil rights leader who faced discrimination first hand and wanted to make a change. Led Brown vs. Board of education |
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Rosa Parks |
Civil rights activist who was very famous for when she was arrested for not getting out of her seat for a white person because she wanted to stand up for what she believed in |
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Stokely Carmichael |
became a leader of SNCC and abandoned idea of nonviolence. Started the black power movement |
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Richard Nixon |
U.S. president who was part of the Watergate Scandal and was the first president to resign. |
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Henry Kissinger |
National Security Advisor who began secret negotiations in Vietnam which were stalled and took many years |
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William Westmoreland |
Head general of the U.S. troops in South Vietnam who ordered thousands of search-and-destroy missions |
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Ngo Dimh Diem |
South Vietnamese leader who was very harsh and corrupt. The U.S. supported him at first but then wanted him to be removed from leadership; he was then assassinated |
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Lyndon B. Johnson |
U.S. president who was Vice-President to JFK and he supported the civil rights movement. He also escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam. He resigned from running for another term because he lost support |
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Robert F Kennedy |
brother of JFK who was a civil rights activist and also ran for president under the democratic party. He was assassinated before he could be elected as the candidate |
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Ho Chi Minh |
communist leader who formed the Vietminh and led them against the U.S. in the Vietnam War. |
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John F Kennedy |
U.S. President who was involved in that start of the cold war include the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Crisis' in Berlin. He was pushed by Khrushchev which led to tension. Assassinated in 1963 |
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Robert McNamara |
Secretary of Defense for JFK and LBJ, played a key role in shaping U.S. strategy in Vietnam |
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Boris Yeltsin |
Led a protest against the capture of Gorbachev. Also involved in the meeting which ended the cold war |
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Mikhail Gorbachev |
Leader of the USSR and wanted to negotiate with the U.S. also announced a new era of glasnost and perestroika which was very popular with the people. Communist Party Officials did not like this and wanted to arrest him; he later resigned |
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Ronald Reagan |
U.S. President who was elected in 1980 and helped end tension in Berlin. He had many great speeches such as tear down this wall |
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George H.W. Bush |
Vice-President to Reagan and became the President after him in 1988. He would then take part in intense dramas around the globe. |
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Josef Stalin |
Dictator from the USSr from1929 to 1953 who was responsible for millions of deaths |
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James Doolittle |
Led daring bomb raids into Tokyo |
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Dwight Eisenhower (Ike) |
General in WWII who led Operation Torch and later became President of the U.S. and came up with the Eisenhower Doctrine |
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Harry Truman |
U.S. President who came up with the Truman Doctrine and was the President during the start of the Cold War |
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Douglas MacArthur |
General during WWII who led the war in the Pacific and also in Korea but was fired by Truman because of how he wanted to widen the war |
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The Rosenburgs |
charged of conspiracy to commit espionage by letting out secrets about the atomic bomb and were executed in 1953 |
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Joseph McCarthy |
Wisconsin Senator |
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Nikita Krushchev |
Leader of USSR after the death of Stalin who made a lot of tension in the cold war (Cuban Missile Crisis) |
