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| 8801382864 | Adlai Stevenson | The Democratic candidate who ran against Eisenhower in 1952. His intellectual speeches earned him and his supporters the term "eggheads". | 0 | |
| 8801382868 | Rosa Parks | Was a seamstress and a secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and is known as the "mother of the civil rights movement." In December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white rider. She was jailed and fined $14 for the offense. This led to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Montgomery bus boycott.. | 1 | |
| 8801382869 | Martin Luther King Jr | Active civil rights activist and chairman of Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Civil disobedience. Became the face of the movement. March on Washington / "I have a Dream" speech. | 2 | |
| 8801382874 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | He was elected president two consecutive terms in 1952 and 1956. He was president during the prosperous 1950s and orchestrated "Modern Republicanism" which tried but didn't undo the New Deal of the Democrats. He's well known for starting interstate highways and warning America against the "military-industrial complex." | 3 | |
| 8801382883 | John F Kennedy | He was the youngest president ever elected, as well as the only Catholic to take office. He represented the Democratic party with his "New Frontier" platform in the 1960 election. He was a major contributor to the space program and to the civil rights movement. | 4 | |
| 8801382884 | Richard Nixon | He was vice president to Eisenhower and was involved in the Kitchen Debates with USSR leader Khrushchev. Ran in the election of 1960 but did not win. | 5 | |
| 8801382886 | Earl Warren | Chief Justice and the former governor of California. He brought originally taboo social issues, such as civil rights to African Americans, to the attention of Congress and the country, although his civil rights record is scant. | 6 | |
| 8806610920 | Ho Chi Minh | He was the Vietnamese leader who believed in Asian nationalism and anti-colonialism in his country. He was trying to get rid of the French colonial rule in Vietnam and he became increasingly communist. | 7 | |
| 8806630560 | Ngo Dinh Diem | He was a strong anti-communist, proclaimed South Vietnam a republic on Oct. 26, 1956 and became its first president. He was assassinated in a military coup d'etat. | 8 | |
| 8806639932 | Gamal Abdel Nasser | He was a hard-nosed Arab-nationalist president of Egypt during the Suez Canal crisis in 1956. He seized the Suez Canal from the English and French. | 9 | |
| 8806647930 | Nikita Khruschev | He was the premier of the USSR during the race to get satellites into space between the Soviets and the United States. He used many propaganda techniques to try to fool the world of Russia's intentions. | 10 | |
| 8806660609 | Fidel Castro | He engineered a revolution in Cuba in 1959. He denounced the imperialists and took valuable American property for a land-distribution program. When the U.S. cut off U.S. imports of Cuban sugar, he took more U.S. land and, resulting from that, his dictatorship became similar to Stalin's in the USSR. | 11 |
