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Person
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Head of the US department of justice whose house was bombed, triggering the First Red Scare
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Alexander Mitchell Palmer
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Dictator who was defeated by the USA and the USSR in the Second World War
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Adolf Hitler
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Leader of the USSR at the end of the Second World War
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Joseph Stalin
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US Secretary of State who was the namesake of a plan to aid countries at risk of becoming Communist
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George Marshall
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British Prime Minister who coined the term "Iron Curtain"
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Winston Churchill
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US President for most of the Korean War who was the namesake of a "Doctrine" involving the containment of Communism
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Harry S. Truman
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Leader of North Korea from 1948
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Kim Il-Sung
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First President of South Korea
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Syngman Rhee
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First leader of Communist China
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Mao Zedong
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US President who introduced Vietnamisation
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Richard Nixon
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Leader of China before the Communist revolution
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Second World War General who was the chief of UN forces in Korea from June 1950 - April 1951
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Douglas MacArthur
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US President for most of the Second World War
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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North Korean Pilot who defected to the US after the end of the Korean War and received a large reward
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No Kum-sok
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US President from 1953 who negotiated the peace treaty at the end of the Korean War
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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First Secretary General of the United Nations who resigned after the USSR refused to accept him as Secretary General because of his involvement in the Korean War
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Trygve Lie
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Co-founder of the Vietminh who became the leader of North Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
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Co-founder of the Vietminh
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Vo Nguyen Giap
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Leader of South Vietnam who was strongly opposed to Communism and known for being nepotistic
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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Former emperor of Vietnam who was the opponent of the above in a fraudulent election in 1955
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Bo Dai
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Buddhist monk who burnt himself alive in public to protest against the South Vietnamese government
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Thich Quang Duc
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Sister-in-law of the South Vietnamese leader who was outspoken against his opponents
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Tran Le Xuan (Madame Nhu)
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US President who backed a coup against the leader of South Vietnam
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John F. Kennedy
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Writer of the report "The Path to Revolution in the South", which stated that North Vietnam had to do more to unite the country, and predicted a war with the USA
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Le Duan
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Leader of the National Liberation Front (Vietcong), who was not a Communist
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Hua Tho
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US Senator who was the namesake of an Act requiring Communists to be investigated by HUAC and limiting their employment opportunities
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Pat McCarran
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US Senator who claimed to have a list of federal employees who were Communists; he inspired a "Witch Hunt" in the Second Red Scare
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Joseph McCarthy
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US President who greatly increased US involvement in Vietnam following the attack in the Gulf of Tonkin
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Commander of US forces in Vietnam from 1964-1968
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William Westmoreland
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Replacement of the above after the President refused him 200,000 more troops to fight in Vietnam
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Creighton Abrams
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Soldier who wrote to US politicians and military leaders to expose the My Lai Massacre
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Ronald Ridenhour
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Lieutenant who was court-martialled for 22 murders in the My Lai Massacre - his defence was that he was following orders
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William Calley
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Helicopter pilot who intervened in the My Lai Massacre and was subsequently ostracised for doing so - he gave evidence against the above
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Hugh Thompson
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Civil rights leader who opposed the Vietnam War
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Sport personality who refused to fight in Vietnam and was sentenced to go to prison, though this sentence was eventially overturned
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Muhammad Ali
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Democratic presidential candidate in the 1968 US Presidential Election
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Hubert Humphrey
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Nine-year-old Vietnamese girl who was photographed running naked down a road after a napalm attack
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc
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Student who was shot at Kent State University and was the subject of a famous photograph
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Jeffrey Miller
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Fourteen-year-old girl depicted screaming in this photo
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Mary Ann Vecchio
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Singer of the anti-war songs "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance"
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John Lennon
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Singer of the anti-war song "Blowin' in the Wind"
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Bob Dylan
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South Vietnamese police chief filmed shooting a Vietcong fighter in the head
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Nguyen Ngoc Loan
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Newsreader who was described as the "most trusted man in the country", who said in 1968 that the US would eventually have to negotiate with North Vietnam
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Walter Cronkite
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US President who became the president after the previous one resigned due to the Watergate Scandal
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Gerald R. Ford
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US National Security Advisor who negotiated US withdrawal from Vietnam
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Henry Kissinger
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North Vietnamese chief negotiator who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 along with the above
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Le Duc Tho
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US representative who began peace talks in Paris in 1969
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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