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was a German politician who
was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
Hitler
was secretary-general of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-53) and premier of the Soviet state (1941-53), who for a quarter of a century dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union and transformed it into a major world power.
Joseph Stalin
was the supreme commander
of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War 2.
Eisenhower
in the United States was the
forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens.
FDR
was a Japanese attack on an
American gunboat while it was anchored in the Yangtze River outside Nanking, China on December 12, 1937.
Japan and the United States were not at war at the time.
The Japanese claimed that they did not see the American flags painted on the deck of the gunboat, apologized, and paid an indemnity.
The USS Panay incident
was the United States policy
towards the Soviet Union and Communism until 1989.
Containment
led the Soviet Union during
the height of the Cold War, serving as premier from 1958 to 1964. Though he largely pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida.
Nikita Khrushchev
was the first man made
satellite and it was launched October 4, 1957.
Sputnik I
was a minister, human rights
activist, and prominent black nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam during the 1950s and 1960s. Due largely to his efforts, the Nation of Islam grew from a mere 400 members at the time he was released from prison in 1952 to 40,000 members by 1960.
Articulate, passionate, and a naturally gifted and inspirational orator, he exhorted blacks to cast off the shackles of racism “by any means necessary,” including violence.
Malcom X
(January 15, 1929-April 4,
1968) was the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and in 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
MLK
He was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office.
Richard Nixon
This was a set of domestic programs launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964-1965 whose main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
The Great Society
The spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the moon on July 20, 1969 was
Apollo 11
The Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam was called the
The Viet Cong
The major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters where members of the Nixon campaign stole copies of top-secret documents and bugged the office’s phones was known as the
Watergate Scandal
