| A | B |
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| Harry S Truman | Succeeded Roosevelt as president when he died in 1945 and was re-elected in 1948. |
| Jackie Robinson | Became the first black to play major league baseball when he joined the Dodgers in 1947. |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of England who coined the “Iron Curtain” phrase. |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy | Anticommunist who contributed to the Great Fear by accusing government officials and leader of being communists. |
| Thurgood Marshall | Leader of the NAACP in the Brown v. Board of Education case. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Pastor who came to the national forefront of the civil rights movement with his successful leadership in the Montgomery bus boycott. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | WWII hero elected to presidency in 1952 on the Republican ticket. |
| Rosa Parks | NAACP member from Montgomery who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. |
| Richard Nixon | Vice president to Eisenhower who used television as a political tool for the first time. Led the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss |
| Alger Hiss | Former Roosevelt associate who was tried for communism. Convicted of perjury. |
| Douglas McArthur | Headed the U.N. forces in Korea. Relieved after being accused of insubordination for disregarding Truman’s orders. |
| Clark Clifford | New-Dealist who was Truman’s speech writer, political strategist and White House affairs coordinator. |
| George Marshall | Secretary of State under Truman who is given credit for the European Recovery Program commonly referred to as the Marshall Plan. |
| Albert Einstein | Scientist ordered to work on the development of the hydrogen bomb by Truman. |
| Senator Robert A. Taft | Senator from Ohio who was partially responsible for the Taft-Hartley act which was used by Republicans to reverse the Democratic legislation created during the Roosevelt administration. |
