The Fifties Dwight D. Eisenhower Brown vs. Board of Education 1954 Earl Warren Orval Faubus Martin Luther King
“Organization Man” “Beatniks” Adlai Stevenson “Third World” John Foster Dulles Indo-China (Viet Nam) Viet Minh (Viet Cong) Ho Chi Minh Sherman Adams Sputnik Fidel Castro Richard Nixon John F. Kennedy
1960s & 1970s John F. Kennedy “Freedom Riders” Robert Kennedy James Meredith Medgar Evers Martin Luther King Charles De Gaulle Peace Corps “Third World” Alliance for Progress Berlin Wall Nikita Khrushchev
Ngo Dinh Diem Lyndon Johnson Barry Goldwater Medicare 1965 Golf of Tonkin Resolution 1964 Eugene McCarthy
Age of Reagan Gerald Ford “Win Buttons” Henry Kissinger Jimmy Carter Andrew Young “Superfund” Camp David Accords 1978 Ayatollah Khomeini
Ronald Reagan Jerry Falwell “Moral Majority” Religious Right James Watt Sandinistas
Contras Walter Mondale Geraldine Ferraro Iran-Contra Affair Oliver North Michael Milkin Ivan Boesky
Richard M. Nixon Hubert Humphrey George Wallace Curtis Le May Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg George McGovern Watergate C.R.E.E.P. “Saturday Night Massacre: Gerald Ford