Key figures

Question 1

Dean Acheson

Answer 1

Secretary of State and Foreign policy advisor

Question 2

George Kennan

Answer 2

American Diplomat

Question 3

General George Marshall

Answer 3

WW2 veteran and chief of staff in US army

Question 4

Vyacheslav Molotov

Answer 4

Minister of foreign affairs

Question 5

Chiang Kai Shek/ Jiang Jieshi

Answer 5

established the Republic of China in Taiwan

Question 6

Mao Tse Tung

Answer 6

chairman of the communist party of China 1946-76

Question 7

General MacArthur

Answer 7

In charge of occupied Japan and commander in chief for UN forces in Korea

Question 8

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 8

Founder of the Indochina communist party

Question 9

Strom Thurmond

Answer 9

Ran for the States rights party in 1948 against Truman

Question 10

Henry Wallace

Answer 10

Former VP under FDR and ran for Presidency for the Progressive Party in 1948.

Question 11

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 11

US senator who was known for McCarthyism

Question 12

J Edgar Hoover

Answer 12

Head of the FBI from 1935-1972

Question 13

A Philip Randolph

Answer 13

Leading Civil rights figure who founded the nation’s first major Black union, the brotherhood of sleeping car porters.

Question 14

Malcolm X

Answer 14

member of the nation of Islam

Question 15

Elijah Muhammad

Answer 15

leader of the nation of Islam

Question 16

Bayard Rustin

Answer 16

gay rights activist and civil rights campaigner and organiser

Question 17

Adam Clayton Powell

Answer 17

First African American elected in New York to the house of representatives (1945)

Question 18

Jackie Robinson

Answer 18

First Black player to play in major league baseball in the modern era. (1947)

Question 19

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 19

lawyer for the NAACP and later a supreme court justice