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.
