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Sworn in after FDR's death
Atomic Bombs (Hiroshima&Nagasaki) WW2
Inaugurated in 1948
33rd president |
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Singer
Actress
Animal activist
4 husbands
late 1940's |
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| Communist party won Chinese Civil War => created People's Republic of China |
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Bisexual
Singer
Died from alcohol |
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Musical
Broadway
Based on book
Considered scandalous |
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Agrgressive radio/newspaper journalist
Created gossip column |
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Baseball player
New York Yankees
56 hit streak
retired 1952
Drafted in WW2 1942 |
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McCarthyism
1908 republican from Wisconsin
'Witch Hunt' (communists) |
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34th president
1972 resigned
Served in army |
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Wagon company
1852 first wagon
1966 stopped |
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Producesd in 1930s
Black and White |
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Actress
Singer
Model
died at 26, unknown reasons (overdose or suicide) |
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Died 1953 for treason (concerning H Bomb- Soviet Union)
executed ie electric chair |
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Thermonuclear bomb
1955 Russians tested bomb
USA, Russia, China, India, France, Britain had bomb |
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Village on N. and S. Korean borders
cease fire |
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Marlo Brando
invented method acting |
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Movie, Broadway play
Bangkok, Siam (present day Thailand)
Anna (son Louis) wants King to modernize
Anna teaches English |
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Novel, written by J.D. Salinger
Very controversial |
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Dwight E. Eisenhower
34th president
Involved in WW2 and Pearl Harbor
Responsible for Little Rock Nine (Arkansas) |
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Succeeded throne of George IV
United Kingdom (England) |
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Rocky Marciano
Boxer
Never lost a match |
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Entertainer
Played piano
Had TV show
Looked like Elvis (flashy) |
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| American-Mexican philosopher |
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First secretary of Communist Party
Caused famine in USSR
2003 died (rat poison) |
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Soviet politician
Became leader |
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Nasser- Egptian President
Prokofiov- Russian composer
Entered U.S. through Angel Island |
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Winthrop Rockefeller
Divorce with wife, wife earned a lot of money |
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Roy Campanella
Best baseball catcher
Paralyzed in car crash
played 7 all star games |
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| Group of commnist nations dominated by Soviet Union |
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Lawyer
Attorney General
Appointed head of state
Homosexual
Died (AIDs) |
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| President of Argentina before The Dirty War |
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Vietnamese Ccity
Vietnam wants to be communist
Vietnam is created, started Vietnam war |
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Scientist
America 1933
Created atomic bomb |
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Actor
Theater major
Car accident, dies in hospital
Got out of serving in military (homosexual) |
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