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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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| He was the only President of the United States to have not been elected on a national basis. |
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| He and his wife were convicted and executed for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. |
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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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| 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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| He made the decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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| He was the architect of the Great Society. |
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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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| CIA director under which the governments of Iran, Congo, and Nicaragua were overthrown. |
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| He was the architect of the Fair Deal. |
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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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| Republican presidential candidate in 1964 who led the rise of neo-conservatism in American politics. |
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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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| He was the architect of the New Deal. |
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| This is the only American president to resign from office. |
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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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| 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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| Civil rights leader who advocated that African-American seek civil rights “by any means necessary.” |
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| He was the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| He was the leading figure behind the Contract With America |
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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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| This author of Silent Spring was one of the central figures of the early environmental movement. |
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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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| He advocated a post-World War II international peace organization with the “Big Four Policeman” concept. |
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| He made history by becoming the first American president to visit China. |
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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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| This president made the courting of developing world leaders, particularly those in Africa, a focal point of his foreign policy. |
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| He was the intellectual architect of détente, linkage, and triangular diplomacy. |
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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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| Charismatic African-American civil rights leader whose prison conversion to Islam led him to join the Nation of Islam. |
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| Senator who led public witch hunts for Communists in the State Department, Hollywood and elsewhere. |
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| President who used the doctrine of massive retaliation as the corner stone of his foreign policy. |
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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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| His brilliance gave us civil rights laws; his stubbornness gave us the Vietnam War. |
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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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| 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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| This president advocated for a policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” regarding homosexuality in the military. |
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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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| This president’s foreign policy initiatives included the Peace Corps and Alliance For Progress. |
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| It was under this president that a national interstate highway system was built. |
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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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| The only individual to simultaneously hold the positions of both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. – |
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| She was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. |
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| This National Security Council member was the central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal. |
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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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| 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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| Author of Unsafe at Any Speed and a famous consumer rights advocate. |
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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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| Earth Day was the brainchild of this Wisconsin Senator. |
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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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| 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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| This anti-feminist and founder of the Eagle Forum was the most outspoken opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment. |
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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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| This American president helped mediate European acceptance of German reunification. |
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| Author of “Letter From the Birmingham Jail” |
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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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| 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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| It was under his presidency that the Christian Right first assumed a powerful position in national politics. |
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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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