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 * Olivia Smith

Harry Truman: **president from 1945-1953. He ran for president against Thomas E. Dewey. He won the election when everything thought he would lose. He was president during the Korean War and was trying to keep communism from expanding. Truman became president when FDR died. He came into power as the president because he was the vice president. His vice president was Alben Barkley .[|wikipedia link] Branch Rickey: **manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team when he signed Jackie Robinson onto the team. He was involved in breaking the color barrier in baseball. He picked Jackie Robinson because he was a good, hardworking player and he knew how not to fight back. [|wikepedia link]
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Joseph McCarthy: The Rosenbergs: Winston Churchill: Fidel Castro: J. Edgar Hoover: Bull Connor: Little Rock Nine: Jackie Robinson: Eisenhower: Thomas Dewey: Martin Luther King: Linda Brown: Earl Warren: Thurgood Marshall: Ralph Abernathy: Malcom X: Bobby King: Jimmy Lee Jackson: Rosa Parks: KKK: Richard Nixon: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan: ** presidents in the correct order
 *  Nikita Khrushchev: ** Leader of Russia
 *  William Levitt:
 * Mao Zedong: **