President who stated, 'I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorites or outside pressures'

Created the containment policy, which said the United States would defend countries in danger of Soviet takeover

Created a plan which sent more than $12 billion to Europe

Recommended an all-out confrontation with China during the Korean War

Former State Department official who was found guilty of consorting with a Communist spy

Wisconsin senator who claimed to have a list of more than 200 known Communists working for the State Department

Broke the color barrier in baseball

Presidential candidate who everyone thought would beat Truman in his run for a second term

War hero who was elected president in 1952

Wrote 'On the Road,' a novel reflecting the spiritual unrest of the 1950s

Known as 'The King of Rock and Roll'

Brought about the Supreme Court case that ruled 'separate educational facilities are inherently unequal'

Actions sparked the Montgomery bus boycott

Inspired by Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi, encouraged peaceful protests

Coined the phrase 'massive retaliation,' describing the response the United States would give if the Soviets attacked

Elected president in 1960, created a domestic program called the New Frontier

Director of Mississippi's NAACP, shot by an anti-integrationist in 1963

Took office after Kennedy, immediately began calling for the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who worked to expand civil rights

A minister of the Nation of Islam who called for a more agressive approach to claiming civil rights

Wrote 'The Feminine Mystique,' sparking the reemergence of the woman's rights movement

Slaughtered a village of innocent civilians in South Vietnam

Assassinated favorite for the Democratic nomination in 1968; critic of the Vietnam War

Pro-war Democratic presidential candidate in 1968

Elected president in 1968; promised to end American involvement in Vietnam through a process called 'Vietnamization'

Ran a segregationist third-party campaign in 1968

Secretary of State who ended American involvement in Vietnam in 1973

Turned the Pentagon Papers over to the press

Took over office after Nixon resigned; pardoned Nixon

Nixon's first vice president who resigned because of impending criminal charges

Elected president in 1976; brokered a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt

Elected president in 1980; tried to restore the economy using supply-side economics

Cold War ended under this president who was elected in 1988

First African American to run for the Democratic presidential nomination

First African American justice of the Supreme Court

Conservative evangelical who helped form the New Right movement

Director of the CIA under Eisenhower who helped install pro-American governments in Guatemala and Iran

Executed for selling nuclear secrets to the Soviets

Poet of the Beat Generation who wrote 'Howl'

Assassinated President Kennedy