| A | B |
| Joseph McCarthy | Senator who accused the army and government of having communist infiltrators |
| Harry Truman | his doctrine called for the containment of communism |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| John F. Kennedy | American president who ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion |
| Lyndon Johnson | President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Dwight Eisenhower | Interstate highway act passed during his administration |
| Fidel Castro | Communist leader of Cuba |
| Richard Nixon | He did not look as good as Kennedy on TV and lost the 1960 presidential election |
| Jackie Robinson | He integrated major league baseball in 1947 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr | SCLC member who believed in non-violent protest |