History Ch. 27, 28, 29 Matching

George F. Kennan

Authored the "Long Telegram" and advised containing Soviet expansionism.

Malcolm X

Became a major spokesman for the Black Muslim movement and expressed the emotions and frustrations of the inner-city African American working poor.

Fidel Castro

Led a Communist regime in Cuba and failed to be ousted despite a secret operation authorized by Eisenhower.

Earl Warren

Was a Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court under whose leadership it was an engine for social and political change.

Diane Nash

Was a Freedom Rider who recruited new members upon hearing about the violence perpetrated toward Freedom Riders in Birmingham.

James Meredith

Was an African American air force veteran whose efforts to attend a southern university were met with a white mob resulting in the arrival of National Guard troops.

William Westmoreland

Was an American army commander in Vietnam who focused on waging a war of attrition and using overwhelming firepower.

Oral Faubus

Was an Arkansas governor who argued that racial integration was an issue of states rights.

George Wallace

Was an openly racist Alabama governor who vowed to protect segregation and later ran for president on the American Independent Part ticket.

Angela Davis

Was an outspoken activist on racism, sexism, the "prison-industrial complex," gay/lesbian rights, and the Vietnam War.

Matthew Ridgeway

Was appointed by Truman to lead UN forces in Korea after April 1951.

Lyndon Johnson

Was elected vice president under John F. Kennedy in 1960 and later on developed programs that would exceed Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal in scope.

J. Strom Thurmond

Was governor of South Carolina and the Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948

Ethel Rosenberg

Was part of the same Soviet spy ring as Klaus Fuchs, a German-born English nuclear physicist.

Dean Rusk

Was secretary of state during the Cuban missile crisis and told reporters to say that the Soviets "blinked first"

Nikita Khrushchev

Was the Soviet premier who threatened to give East Germany control of East Berlin and walked out of the resulting summit meeting.

Douglas MacArthur

Was the consul in charge of U.S.-occupied Japan and served as Supreme commander of the UN forces.

Allen Ginsberg

Was the openly gay cultural figure who wrote the provocative prose-poem "Howl"

Mohammed Mossadegh

Was the prime minister of Iran who cut diplomatic ties with Great Britain and was later overthrown.

George C. Marshall

Was the secretary of state I 1947 who devised the plan of economic recovery aid to Europe.

Robert F. Kennedy

Won California's Democratic primary in 1968 but was assassinated that night by Sirhan Sirhan out of resentment for his support of Israel.

John Keats

Wrote "The Crack in the Picture Window" a vicious satire of affluent suburbia.

Arthur Miller

Wrote "The Crucible", inspired by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC).

Barry Goldwater

Wrote the best-selling book "The Conscience of a Conservative" (1960) and won Arizona in the 1964 presidential race.

Rosa Parks

challenged bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, by being arrested rather than giving up a seat to a white man.

Joseph R. McCarthy

was a senator from Wisconsin who took advantage of anti-Communist anxieties.

Francis Gary Powers

was the American pilot who had spied on the Soviets by taking pictures of military installations.

Jackie Robinson

was the first African American to play Major League Baseball and drew more diverse crowds

Ho Chi Minh

Proclaimed the creation of a Democratic Republic of Vietnam and used force to resist the restoration of a colonial regime.

Hector Perez Garcia

Organized the GI Forum to foster equal treatment of Mexican American veterans.