| A | B |
| Harry S. Truman | Democratic President 1945-1953. Died 1972. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Republican President 1953-1961. Died 1969. |
| John F. Kennedy | Democratic President 1961-1963. Died 1963 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Democratic President 1963-1969. Died 1973. |
| Richard M. Nixon | Republican President 1969-1974. Died 1984. |
| Gerald R. Ford | Republican President 1974-1977. |
| Jimmy Carter | Democratic President 1977-1981. |
| Ronald Reagan | Republican President 1981-1989. Died 2004. |
| Joseph McCarthy | Senator from Wisconsin who accused the Democratic party of "twenty years of treason." He used unfounded political accusations to destroy people with the communist label. |
| George C. Marshall | General who had helped plan D-Day invasion and became U.S. secretary of state in 1947. Author of a plan holding his name. |
| John L. Lewis | President of the United Mine Workers (UMW) |
| Mao Zedong | Leader of the Chinese Communist Nationalist army. |
| Douglas MacArthur | Helped create a U.S.-style constitution for Japan. |
| Alger Hiss | Former State Department officer accused of being a spy. He denied the chargers. |
| Julius & Ethel Rosenberg | In 1951 put on trial for spying. Found guilty of passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviets and executed in June 1953. |