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US History: Final Exam People

Terms in this set (48)

Barry Goldwater
I ran for president in 1964 on the Republican ticket but lost to Lyndon Johnson.
Fidel Castro
I was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missle Crisis. The U.S. tried to overthrow me.
Adlai Stevenson
I was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations that showed Ariel photographs to the world that Russia had placed missiles in Cuba.
Richard Nixon
I ran for president in 1960 on the Republican ticket but lost to John Kennedy. Some say I lost do to my physical appearance in televised debates.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I am famous for giving my "I have a dream" speech. I was also a famous civil rights leader.
Jackie
I was the wife of John Kennedy. I was 31 years old when I became First Lady.
J.D. Tippit
I was a Dallas police officer that was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
William Miller
I was the Republican vice-president candidate for Barry Goldwater in the 1964 election.
Robert Kennedy
I was the Attorney General of the United States that sent U.S. marshals to the University of Mississippi. My brother was also a famous president.
John Glenn
I was an American astronaut that circled the Earth 3 times in February 1962.
John Connolly
I was the governor of Texas that was riding with John Kennedy in his limousine when Kennedy was assassinated.
Lyndon Johnson
I became the vice-president of the United States in 1960. I became president of the United States when Presdient Kennedy was assassinated.
James Meredith
In 1962, I became a the first black to enroll at the University of Mississippi causing riots to break out.
Herbert Humphrey
I became vice-president of the United States in 1964 when my running mate, Lyndon Johnson, was elected president.
John F. Kennedy
I am a democrat that was elected president of the United States in 1960. My years in office were filled with great turmoil.
Jack Ruby
I was a nightclub owner that shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald.
Nikita Khrushchev
I was the leader of Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
George Wallace
I was the governor of Alabama during which National Guard troops were used to integrate the University of Alabama.
Yuri Gargaran
I was a Russian cosmonaut that became the first man to be sent into space in 1961.
Lee Harvey Oswald
I assassinated President John Kennedy.
Rosa Parks
I was the person who refused to give up my seat to a white man in a bus in Alabama.
James Earl Ray
I shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Timothy Leary
I was a professor at Harvard University that said LSD could raise a person to a higher level of consciousness.
Sirhan Sirhan
I assassinated Robert Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968.
Spiro Agnew
I was the vice-president of Richard Nixon. I was the governor of Maryland. I was elected in 1969.
Edmund Muskie
I was the vice-presidential democratic nominee for president in the 1968 election.
Daniel Ellsberg
I was employed at the Rand Corporation where I helped the government do a study on the U.S.'s involvement in Indo-China from 1945-1969.
Lewis Fielding
I was a psychiatrist whose office was broken into by a group of men looking to steal information about a government employee.
Minhail Gorbachev
Leader of the Soviet Union (Russia) beginning in 1985.
Sam Irvin
Senator from South Carolina that headed a committee to investigate Watergate.
Ronald Reagan
Man elected president of the United States in 1980 and 1984.
Anwar Sadat
Leader of Egypt in 1978 who signed a peace agreement with Israel.
Elizabeth Dole
Woman appointed as Secretary of Transportation by Ronald Reagan.
John Poindexter
National Security Advisor involved in the Iran-Contra Scandal.
Richard Nixon
Man elected president of the United States in 1968 and 1972.
Ayatollah Khomeini
Man who took over the government of Iran during the Revolution of 1979.
Sandra Day O'Connor
First woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court.
Geraldine Ferraro
First woman to ever be elected a Vice-Presidential Candidate (in 1984).
Carl Bernstein
Man who covered the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post.
Jimmy Carter
Man elected president of the U.S. in 1976.
Oliver North
Colonel in the U.S. Army that was connected with the Iran-Contra Scandal.
The Shaw
Overthrown leader of Iran who came to the U.S. for cancer treatments.
Menachem Begin
Prime Minister of Israel in 1978 who signed a peace agreement with Egypt.
Walter Mondale
Democratic Presidential candidate in the election of 1984.
Gerald Ford
Man that took over the U.S. presidency following the resignation of President Nixon.
George McGovern
Democratic Presidential candidate in the election of 1972.
George Bush
The vice-president for Ronald Reagan.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Woman appointed as United Nations Ambassador by Ronald Reagan.
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