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Time 100: The Most Important People of the 20th Century
World War II
Henry Kaiser
General Douglas MacArthur
Pearl Harbor
Pacific Campaigns:
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal
Philippines Campaign
Battle of Okinawa
European Campaigns:
Normandy Invasion
Battle of the Bulge
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Admiral Chester Nimitz
Soviet-American Alliance
The Japanese American Internment
African Americans in the U.S. Military
The US Occupation of Japan
Hollywood and the War
Labor Movement
Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union
Walter Reuther and the United Auto Workers
The Cold War
OSS/CIA
The Berlin Airlift
The Marshall Plan
The U.S. and NATO
The Korean War
The Hollywood Blacklist
The Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S.-Cuban Relations, 1930-1958
U.S.-Cuban Relations, 1959-1975
The U.S. and the Chinese Revolution
The Civil Rights Movement
Malcolm X
Thurgood Marshall
Brown vs. Board of Education
Rosa Parks
American Indian Movement
California
Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown
Governor Ronald Reagan
Earl Warren, governor; Chief Justice, US Supreme Court
Los Angeles and the Automobile
The Central Valley Project
Vietnam
David Halberstam
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert S. McNamara
Dean Rusk
Gen. William Westmoreland
American Nurses and the War
The Tet Offensive of 1968
The U.S. Election of 1968
The Government of the Republic of Vietnam
The People's Republic of Vietnam
U.S. Policy and Vietnam, 1945-1960
U.S. Policy and Vietnam, 1961-1965
U.S. Policy and Vietnam, 1966-1972
National Figures
Louis Armstrong
William F. Buckley
Walt Disney
Allen Dulles
Senator Barry Goldwater
Ernest Hemingway
President John F. Kennedy
Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Jack Kerouac
Dr. Henry Kissinger
William J. Levitt
Charles Lindbergh
Henry Luce & Time-Life
Robert Moses
Edward R. Murrow
Ralph Nader
President Richard Nixon
Charlie Parker
Elvis Presley
Jackie Robinson
Frank Sinatra
President Harry Truman