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Contemp. History: 1941 to now
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12/15/2008

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Marshall
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As a general, he organized the American effort in World War II, as a statesmen he helped develop the plan to rebuild Western Europe.
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Ford
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He was the only President of the United States to have not been elected on a national basis.
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Rosenberg
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He and his wife were convicted and executed for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.
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Jimmy Carter
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He took advantage of the country’s crisis of confidence in the government post Watergate and Vietnam to win the presidency on the platform of being an outsider.
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Dean Asikinson
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His speech at the National Press Club leaving South Korea out of the American defense perimeter in Asia played in large role in prompting North Korea’s invasion of South Korea
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Truman
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He made the decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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LBJ
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He was the architect of the Great Society.
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John Foster Dullas
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Eisenhower administration Secretary of State who thought Cold War non-alignment was immoral and expected foreign countries to either be “with us or against us” in the Cold War
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Allen Dullas
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CIA director under which the governments of Iran, Congo, and Nicaragua were overthrown.
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Truman
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He was the architect of the Fair Deal.
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Regan
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A fierce critic of détente, he sought to rollback Communism in the Third World and challenge the Soviets head on by dramatically increasing the American defense budget.
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With a single book—and a singular approach—he changed American parenting and made critics chagrin the “permissive parenting” which they claim led to the New Left’s lack of respect for authority.
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Dr. Spach
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Republican presidential candidate in 1964 who led the rise of neo-conservatism in American politics.
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Goldwater
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This Supreme Court Justice’s Supreme Court transformed American society with its court rulings and bequeathed to modern society issues that have resulted in culture wars.
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Warren
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He was the architect of the New Deal.
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FDR
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This is the only American president to resign from office.
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Nixon
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She spoke to the discontent of housewives in The Feminine Mystique and inspired a revolution in gender roles in founding NOW.
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betty freidin
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This Secretary of Commerce who advocated closer relations with the Soviet Union was fired for being too pro-Soviet and then ran an unsuccessful third party bid for the presidency.
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Henery Wallace
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Civil rights leader who advocated that African-American seek civil rights “by any means necessary.”
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Malcolm X
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He was the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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James earl ray
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He was the leading figure behind the Contract With America
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Nute Gingrage
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This former Governor of Maryland was forced to resign the office of Vice President due to a corruption scandal.
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Spiro Agnue
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This author of Silent Spring was one of the central figures of the early environmental movement.
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Rachel Carson
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This Governor of Alabama stood in the schoolhouse door in an attempt to prevent African Americans from enrolling in classes at the University of Alabama.
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George Wallace
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He advocated a post-World War II international peace organization with the “Big Four Policeman” concept.
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FDR
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He made history by becoming the first American president to visit China.
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Nixon
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This African-American athlete advanced the civil rights movement by breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
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Jackie Robinson
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This president made the courting of developing world leaders, particularly those in Africa, a focal point of his foreign policy.
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JFK
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He was the intellectual architect of détente, linkage, and triangular diplomacy.
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Kissinger
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This Treasury Secretary’s plan to harshly punish Nazi Germany following WWII was accepted by FDR by scrapped by Truman.
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Hans Morganthough
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Charismatic African-American civil rights leader whose prison conversion to Islam led him to join the Nation of Islam.
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Malcolm X
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Senator who led public witch hunts for Communists in the State Department, Hollywood and elsewhere.
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McCarthy
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President who used the doctrine of massive retaliation as the corner stone of his foreign policy.
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Eisenhower
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This physicist was the father of the atomic bomb and the regretful midwife of the nuclear era.
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Opphimer
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His brilliance gave us civil rights laws; his stubbornness gave us the Vietnam War.
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– LBJ
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This World War II hero who oversaw the occupation of Japan was dismissed from his position as the commanding officer of the United Nations forces in Korea for insubordination.
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Douglas mcauther
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As a lawyer and the first African American Supreme Court justice he was the legal architect of the civil rights movement.
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Thergood Marshall
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This president advocated for a policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” regarding homosexuality in the military.
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Clinton
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Congress attempted to impeach this president after he lied under oath regarding an affair he had with a White House intern.
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Clinton
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This president’s foreign policy initiatives included the Peace Corps and Alliance For Progress.
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Kennedy
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It was under this president that a national interstate highway system was built.
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Eisenhower
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This long time director of the FBI thought that the civil rights and anti-war movements were almost completely inspired by foreign communist influences.
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- J Edgar Hoover
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The only individual to simultaneously hold the positions of both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. –
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Kissinger
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She was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
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Sandra Day O'Conner
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This National Security Council member was the central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal.
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Oliver north
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Known as the “father of containment” this diplomat authored the “long telegram” from the American embassy in Moscow in 1946.
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George kennen
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He was the police commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama during the 1960s and became notorious for using fire hoses and police attack dogs against peaceful African-American demonstrators.
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Paul Conner
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Author of Unsafe at Any Speed and a famous consumer rights advocate.
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– Ralph Nader
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This civil rights leader founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was the foremost advocate for non-violent resistance.
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MLK
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Earth Day was the brainchild of this Wisconsin Senator.
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Gaylord nelson
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This leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee shifted from being a proponent of integration to becoming a black nationalist and is often credited with developing the slogan “Black Power.”
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stockly carmickle
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This civil rights leader changed his name to Kwame Ture and moved to Guinea in order to flee the racism he faced in the U.S
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stockly carmickle
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This anti-feminist and founder of the Eagle Forum was the most outspoken opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Phyllis schufly
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This actor, singer, and civil rights leader was an outspoken of American treatment of African Americans, winning him the Lenin Peace Prize and State Department cancellation of his passport.
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Paul Robeson
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This American president helped mediate European acceptance of German reunification.
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George bush
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Author of “Letter From the Birmingham Jail”
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– MLK
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She became a icon of the civil rights movement after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, AL city bus.
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Rosa Parks
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This jazz trumpeter and bandleader served as a State Department sponsored ‘Jambassador’
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dizzy galispy /Louis Armstrong
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This biologist’s research on human sexuality profoundly influenced social and cultural values in the United States.
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Kinsey
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It was under his presidency that the Christian Right first assumed a powerful position in national politics.
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Reagan
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OPEC Embargo
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During Yom Kippur war OPEC puts an oil embargo on the United States. This causes the 1973-1974 oil crisis – which drove up the price of a barrel of oil from $3 to almost $20. Prices at the gas pump went from $0.30 to $1.20 and shortages caused long lines at gas stations.
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