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| 13594618668 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2--leader of troops in Africa and commander in DDay invasion-elected president-president during integration of Little Rock Central High School | 0 | |
| 13594628019 | John F. Kennedy | President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis | 1 | |
| 13594628020 | Lyndon B. Johnson | signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law and the voting rights act of 1965. he had a war on poverty in his agenda. in an attempt to win, he set a few goals, including the great society, the economic opportunity act, and other programs that provided food stamps and welfare to needy famillies. he also created a department of housing and urban development. his most important legislation was probably medicare and medicaid. | 2 | |
| 13594630479 | Richard Nixon | Vice President under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States | 3 | |
| 13594633065 | Joseph McCarthy | 1950s; Wisconsin senator claimed to have list of communists in American gov't, but no credible evidence; took advantage of fears of communism post WWII to become incredibly influential; "McCarthyism" was the fearful accusation of any dissenters of being communists | 4 | |
| 13594636892 | Betty Friedan | 1921-2006. American feminist, activist and writer. Best known for starting the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book "The Feminine Mystique". | 5 | |
| 13594636893 | Martin Luther King Jr. | U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964) | 6 | |
| 13595189897 | Bob Marley | Jamaican singer who popularized reggae (1945-1981) | 7 | |
| 13595199612 | Nikita Khrushchev | A Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also famous for denouncing Stalin and allowed criticism of Stalin within Russia. | 8 | |
| 13595217715 | Leonid Brezhnev | Seized power from Nikita Khrushchev and became leader of the Soviet Communist party in 1964. Ordered forces in to Afghanistan and Czechoslovakia. | 9 | |
| 13595348053 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe. | 10 | |
| 13595445408 | Boris Yeltsin | President of the Russian Republic in 1991. Helped end the USSR and force Gorbachev to resign. | 11 | |
| 13595470801 | Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and its totalitarianism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system | 12 | |
| 13595491354 | Syngman Rhee | Korean leader who became president of South Korea after World War II and led Korea during Korean War. | 13 | |
| 13595499241 | Kim Il Sung | Communist leader of North Korea; his attack on South Korea in 1950 started the Korean War. He remained in power until 1994. | 14 | |
| 13595554054 | Ho Chi Minh | 1950s and 60s; communist leader of North Vietnam; used geurilla warfare to fight anti-comunist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it unwinnable | 15 | |
| 13595587462 | Josip Broz Tito | the Communist leader of Yugoslavia from 1953 to 1980 | 16 | |
| 13595592172 | Alexander Dubcek | Communist Party Secretary of Czechoslovakia; loosens strict rules; permits criticism of government; assures loyalty to USSR; gets kicked out | 17 | |
| 13599567147 | Nicolae Ceausescu | Romania's longtime dictator, who refused to step down and was executed | 18 | |
| 13599580431 | Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world | 19 | |
| 13599594122 | Yalta | 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war | 20 | |
| 13599646819 | Superpower | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world | 21 | |
| 13599656252 | Iron Curtain | A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region | 22 | |
| 13599665533 | Berlin Blockade/Airlift | In 1948, Berlin was blocked off by the Soviet Union in order to strangle the Allied forces. In order to combat this, the United States began to airlift supplies into Berlin. | 23 | |
| 13599684846 | Berlin Wall | A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West | 24 | |
| 13599698652 | NATO/Warsaw Pact | NATO-North Atlantic Treaty Organization-Alliance formed by domocratic Western nations as and attempt to contain communism. Warsaw Pact-Soviets feel threatened and form a communist alliance | 25 | |
| 13599721711 | Korean War | The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. | 26 | |
| 13599734023 | Mutually Assured Destruction | A doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender. | 27 | |
| 13599757628 | Domino Theory | A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control. | 28 | |
| 13599771280 | Bay of Pigs | Failed CIA operation in April 1961to overthrow Castro and take over Cuba using Cuban exiles. | 29 | |
| 13599784521 | Cuban Missle Crisis (1962) | Standoff between John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in October 1962 over Soviet plans to install nuclear weapons in Cuba. Although the crisis was ultimately settled in America's favor and represented a foreign-policy triumph for Kennedy, it brought the world superpowers perilously close to the brink of nuclear confrontation. | 30 | |
| 13599957163 | ICBM | Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles, long-range nuclear missiles capable of being fired at targets on the other side of the globe. The reason behind the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Russia was threatening the U.S. by building launch sites for ICBM's in Cuba. | 31 |
