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President during the great depresssion and WWII when he emerged as an international leader Modern politician |
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| met with Eisenhower to begin the process of coercing Ike to run for the presidency in 1952 as the Republican candidate |
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| Republican National Campaign manager for Eisenhower |
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| Roosevelt-Truman speechwriter |
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| Tennessee Congressman and chairman of the republican national comittee |
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| wrote the book The Witness that claimed Alger Hiss had been a member of the communist party and grew up with a head life thinking he was an outcast |
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| Secretary of state under Truman |
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| the virulent racist from mississippi during Truman's presidency |
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| Charged with perjury and partaking in espionage because of Chambers's book |
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Intervention in Korea, termination of the Lend-lease act after the war Fought against communism with the Truman Doctrine Berlin Airlift Marshall plan to help Europe recover Creation of israel civil rights |
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| leader of development of the atomic bomb |
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| Edward Teller, Ernest Lawrence |
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| Punished for the prommoting making of the atomic hydrogen bomb |
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A soviet spy for 8 years Worked in bomb design assembly gave detailed reports of atomic secrets to the soviets was arrested and charged most important atomic spy |
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| soviet who worked on the atomic bomb |
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| Senator who claimed there were communists in the State Department that they controlled American foreign policy. listed 57 people |
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| Republican in the senate who sided with McCarthy |
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| main charaacter in 7 novels by Mikey Spillane, the toughest guy in pulp fiction, a book on the reflection of the McCarthyite soul of the country |
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head of american advisory group training the South Korean army exceeded his authority and ordred a bombing of North Korean airfields Conquered Japan |
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| leader of South Korea during atomic bomb era |
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created the Electronic Discrete Variable Arithmetic Calculater Belief in war technology IBM |
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| promoted "super" the hydrogen bomb |
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Lead the Eighth Army after General Walton Walker's death Planned to toughen army Ridgeway takes over the Chinese suspicios McCarthur when the pres. gets fed up |
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| wrote the book Crabgrass Frontier about comparing the housing market to the auto industry |
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| made stores and shopping areas in the new suburb Levittown areas outside the city |
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| Dick and Maurice McDonald |
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| Opened the first McDonald's restauraunt |
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| opened the first Kentucky Fried Chicken |
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| opened the first Holiday Inn |
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| architect for the motel business |
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| was a comedian who Hated TV, Allens Alley Show |
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| Popular variety tv show host |
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| historian of tv and radio broadcasstgin, recieved the George Polk award for his work |
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| vaudeville slapstick comic |
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Senator from 1949 to 1963, opposed o the concentration of US economic and political power under the control of a wealthy, exclusive elite Running mate for Adlai Stevenson |
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| famous poet during the Beat Generation |
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| editor of United Press International, beat generation icon |
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Writer at Columbia, beat genration Autobiograpy Jack's Book |
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His grandfather invented the "adding machine" homosexual |
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| "different" people who were fascinated by criminal life/urban black culture/drugs/African American music |
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| Editor and Critic during the beat generation |
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| major figure in San Fransisco beat Poetry |
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Tilted nomination for Eisenhower so he would win Liberal Economic policies Republican loyalist--Anti communist Not popular with either wing of gov't. |
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New York's best corporate firm |
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| president of Whittier college where Nixon went |
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| Former actres/ran against Nixon for senate in 1950 |
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| journalist/leader in women's movement |
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| enemy of Nixon, House speaker, democrat |
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| accused Republican party of being 1/2 Eisenhower and 1/2 McCarthy |
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| met with Eisenhower, noticed that Eisenhower was nominated because of his popularity, not his brains |
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| Helped Nixon during the Hiss case, but thought he took too much credit for himself |
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| Hoover's aid, wrote a memo saying that Nixon was helping both parties |
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| Chicago Tribune writer, Nixon's presidency |
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| Nixon's biographer, poined out that Nixon grew up without pets, even though he was raised on a farm |
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| NIxon's Television advisor int the 1968 campaign |
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| Writer, Nixon's cousin, said that Milhouses didn't like non-Milhouse blood in their family. Interviewed NIxon's wife and found that her childhood taught her to ignore fatigue |
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| partner in charge of interviwing young men at New York's corporate firm (Sullivan and Crommewell) noticed Nixon's "shifty-eyed" manner |
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| Banker, urged Nixon to run for congress |
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| Nixon's father-in-law, prospector |
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| Eisenhower's wife who looked down upon Pat |
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Chief staff aide on the Joint Comittee on Atomic Energy |
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| Was assigned to study Oppenheimer's security file by Borden |
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| refused to give up hwer bus seat to a white man in 1955, Montgomery Alabama |
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| bus driver on which Parks was arrested |
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| Came up with the Bus Boycott |
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| President of the Montgomery Improvement Association, led the bus boycott |
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| Blonde acress, nude picture in Playboy |
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| Injured after the Hiroshima explosion, Americans tried to send in doctors but weren't allowed, US tried to cover up the issue |
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lead the Strategic Air Command in Washington DC |
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| left wing prime minister of Iran |
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| grandson of Teddy, young CIA opperative in charge of the coup of Mohammed Mosadegh in Iran |
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| US ambassador to Guatemala during the 1954 coup |
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| was who the CIA chose to replace the democratically elected Jacobo Guzman |
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Sec. of State under Eisenhower bambastic and more agressive than him |
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chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
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| Opposed to intervention in Vietnam |
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| corrupt North vietnam leader |
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| "Queen of American appliances", a major Westinghouse rep., model homemaker |
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| motivational research expert, tried to explain consmer's conflict between pleasure and guilt |
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Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (tv show) |
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Ozzie Nelson: Workaholic father Harriet Nelson: Mother put family first David Nelson: Oldest son, reliable Ricky Nelson: Younger, mischevious son |
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| David Riesman and Nathan Glazer |
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wrote The Lonely Crowd about the inner and outer directed american, who was increasingly adopting the values of society rather than what he personally believed |
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| DJ who played Presley's first hit |
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| wrote "Rock around the Clock" a contraversial song of the time |
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| Music producer who first discovered black music, marketed Presley |
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| wrote Peyton Place which became a bestseller because it talked of a pristene smalltown with dark sex related secrets |
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| wrote THe Feminine Mystique about the disilluson and unfulfilled lives of the typical suburban housewife |
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| Worked with Pincus and Chang of the Worcester Foundation on the development of the pill contraceptive |
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| Space program in America, previously worked for Nazi Germany |
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| Ike's press secretary announced that the Navy team would send a satellite team which failed |
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| TV's first intellectual star |
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| a young invertigator who looked into quiz show scandals |
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| Little Rock Central superintendant, anted integration to begin low and work up |
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| Head of Little Rock NAACP |
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| Went to the first day of school by herself at Little Rock Central, harassed |
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| young NBC reporter who covered the little rock story |
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white friend of one of the little rock nine, became chancellor's key source inside the school |
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| given an honorary degree during the peak of his career at the UN, most honored and least contraversial black man in the country |
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| VP at Little Rock school, managed violence |
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| first of the little rock nine to graduate |
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| First drafted black basketball player drafted by the Boston Celtics by Arnold Auerbach |
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| American Batista supporter, American ambassador to cuba |
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put in charge of making new Chevy |
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