people Flashcards
(24 cards)
LBJ’s opponent.Republican presidential nominee in 1964 argued that more needed to be done in So Vietnam in order to contain communism.
barry goldwater
pres in 1950s
Dwight D. Eisenhower
leader of Rev. army in cuba
Fidel Castro
became Nixon’s VP in 69, took over as pres in 74
Gerald Ford
Worked to gain indep from France in Vietnam. He was Vietnamese leader of procommunist rebels and became No Vietnam pres.
Ho Chi Minh
elected in 76, promised to improve econ and educ, assist poor and aging
Jimmy Carter
won 1960 election, assass in 63
John F. Kennedy
WI senator who held parole hearings accusing people of communism
Joseph McCarthy
accused of giving info about atomic bomb to soviet union
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
assass JFK
Lee Harvey Oswald
soviet leader during nixon’s pres, joined in detente
Leonid Brezhnev
efforts in civil rights and the War on Poverty.
Lyndon Johnson
black muslim leader who promoted black pride and self-reliance
Malcolm X
took control of china in 1949, communist
Mao Zedong
helped desegregate the bus system. was a preacher who ledthe civil rights movement with non-violent tactics
Martin Luther King, Jr
came to power in soviet union in 85, wanted reform
Mikhail Gorbachev
early corrupt leader of south vietnam.
Ngo Dinh Diem
took over from stalin as soviet leader in 1953, more moderate
Nikita Khrushchev
opponent to JFK, then won 1968 election, the “law and order” pres
Richard Nixon
elected pres in 1980, was CA governor. his goal was to reduce fed gov and shift balance of polit power bk to states
Ronald Reagan
refused to give up her seat on the bus
Rosa Parks
became first female supreme court justice
Sandra Day O’Connor
nixon’s first VP
Spiro Agnew
SNCC leader who encouraged blacks to become indep of white society
Stokely Carmichael
