| A | B |
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| President Harry S. Truman | Made a speech to Congress asking for money to fight communism worldwide |
| President Dewight D. Eisenhower | he was responsible for the domino theory saying that if one country fell to communism, many more would follow - like a row of dominoes |
| President John F. Kennedy | promised that the United States would land a human on the moon by the end of the 1960s and ordered the blocade to prevent Soviets from sending missiles to Cuba |
| Nikita Krushchev | ended some of Stalin's harsh policies when he took control of the Communist Party in 1953 |
| General Douglas McCarthur | Leader of the UN troops that battled the North Koreans back across the 38th parallel. He wanted to drop an atomi bomb, and was fired by Truman. |
| Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese nationalist that declared the country independent. He lead a force called Vietminh |
| Vietminh | a force led by Ho Chi Minh to drive out the French |
| Fidel Castro | overthrew the dictatorship of Cuban learder Fulgencio Batista. He promised free elections, but did not follow through. |
| George F. Kennan | a well-known American diplomat that argued that the US should "contain" or hold back the spread of communism |
| President Richard M. Nixon | reached a settlement to withdraw American forces from Vietnam in 1973 |
| President Lyndon Johnson | He increased troops in Vietnam in 1965. By 1969, 500,000 troops were fighting. |
| Kwame Nkrumah | guided the Gold Coast - renamed Ghana - to freedom from the British |
| Jomo Kenyatta | guided Kenya to freedom in 1963 |
