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For Biographical Information, check out the following site at Time.com:

    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