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| An extreme segregationist American politician who ran for presidency under the Dixiecrat candidacy in 1948 |
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| The man who invented the polio vaccine |
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| Extreme human rights activist. After years in prison, he became a member of the nation of Islam and spent his time speaking out against racism and segregation; Was assassinated in 1965 |
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| The US pilot whose CIA spy plane was gunned down over the USSR, causing the 1960 U2 incident |
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| The US Army General during the Vietnam war at its peak during the Tet Offensive |
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| The US lawyer/UN official that was charged with perjury and accused of being a communist spy |
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| The first American in space |
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| Presidential nominee that lost against Nixon in 1972 by a landslide |
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| The communist leader of Vietnam |
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| The man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy |
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| The first man to break the sound barrier |
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| A famous German Field Marshall of WWII; known as the Desert Fox |
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| Public face in the Cold War; Relentlessly tried to prevent communism |
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| Nixon's Vice President that resigned because he was a crook |
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| The man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald on live television |
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| One of the first men to land on the moon after traveling their aboard the Apollo 11, along with Buzz Aldrin. |
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| The first black MLB player |
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| Important factor in the feminist movement; Wrote "The Feminine Mystique" |
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| Commander of the raid to bomb Japan during WWII |
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| Creator of "Levitt Towns"; The first version suburbs |
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| Nixon's lawyer during the watergate scandal that eventually confessed the truth |
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| A woman who refused to let a white man have her seat on the front of a bus in 1955 in Alabama; Thought of as the mother of the freedom movement |
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| The first term-limited president to get slapped with the 22nd Amendment; Everybody loved him |
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| The "King Fish"; Created the "Share Our Wealth" program that intended to make "Every Man A King" during the Great Depression |
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| American communist who was charged with espionage and executed, along with her husband; Happened during the Red Scare; Found to be wrongly accused |
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| Presidential candidate that won (and lost) against Johnson in 1964; Was thought of to be too conservative |
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| Communist leader we replaced Batista with in Cuba |
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| Important member of the feminist movement; Leader and Media Spokeswoman of the Women's Liberation Movement |
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| Communist leader in Cuba before Castro |
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| Child psychiatrist that stated that we shouldn't punish our children physically |
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| Civil Rights Activist that used nonviolent methods to get his point across; Was famous for his "I Have A Dream" speech; Assassinated in 1968 |
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| Father of Social Security |
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| Administrated the Watergate Scandal; Was one of the "plumbers" |
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| Chief Justice that worked on the JFK assassination |
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| First American to orbit the Earth |
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| Racist governor of Alabama; Ran for president 3 times |
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| Founder of the People's Republic of China; Communist leader of China |
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| Charged with the assassination of JFK |
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