Stats: 50 Most Famous American Political Figures in Short 20th Century

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Identity	Main deeds / Hint	Answer	% Correct
President	Solved the Second Berlin & Cuban Missile Crisis, proposed the Civil Rights Act, launched the moon-landing program, mysteriously assassinated	John F. Kennedy	100%
President	Elected as president during the Great Depression, introduced an economic policy called the "New Deal" and led the US into World War II	Franklin D. Roosevelt	96%
Social Activist	Led Montgomery bus boycott, organized a march towards Washington, delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech	Martin Luther King Jr.	96%
President	Led the US into Vietnam War, proposed "Great Society", signed the Civil Rights Act	Lyndon B. Johnson	93%
President	Led the US into World War I, proposed "Fourteen Principles" as a postwar peace agenda	Woodrow Wilson	86%
President	Military officer who entered politics after the war, hosted the construction of a large number of highways, promoted the ceasefire in Korea, supported the independence of South Vietnam	Dwight D. Eisenhower	79%
President	Took over after the previous president passed away, implemented completely different policies, started the Cold War against the Soviet Union	Harry S. Truman	68%
President	Proposed the concept of "human rights diplomacy", allowed Panama to regain control of its canal, and established diplomatic relations with Communist China	Jimmy Carter	64%
Cabinet Member	Attorney General, assassinated by a white supremacist when running for presidency	Robert F. Kennedy	64%
President	Never won a persidencial election, granted a presidential amnesty to the guilty former president	Gerald Ford	61%
President	Adopted neoliberal economic policies to address stagflation, expanded military spending to drag down the Soviet Union	Ronald Reagan	57%
President	Did too little to save the economy during the Great Depression, causing the economic situation to go even worse	Herbert Hoover	54%
President	Supressed student movement, visited Communist China, withdrew from Vietnam, monitored the opponent during a presidential election	Richard Nixon	50%
President	Elected president during the "Roaring Twenties", cut government spending, suppressed labour movements, jointly initiated the "Treaty for the Renun-ciation of War" with France	Calvin Coolidge	46%
Vice President	Republican, will be president after the time range of this quiz	George H. W. Bush	46%
Cabinet member	Secretary of State and Secretary of the Army, proposed the "European Recovery Program" to restore the economies of Western European countries after a war	George Marshall	46%
Third Party Leader	Infamous Segregation supporter, Governor of Alabama, ran for presidency in an independent party but failed, assassinated but survived	George Wallace	46%
Federal Bureau Director	Served as the FBI director for 48 years, used a large number of illegal means to spy on social activists, gay and "communists"	J. Edgar Hoover	46%
Congressman	Anti-communist extremist, HUAC leader, suspected that a large number of government and military personnel were Communist spies	Joseph McCarthy	43%
Cabinet Member	Secretary of State, secretly visited Communist China, participated in the negotiations to end the Vietnam War, mediated between the Arab states and Israel	Henry Kissinger	39%
Vice President	Supported "Great Society" and the Vietnam War, ran for presidency but failed	Hubert Humphrey	36%
State Governr	Governor of Massachusetts, Greek American, democrat, ran for presidency once but failed	Michael S. Dukakis	36%
Congressman	Author of "The Conscience of a Conservative," opposed the "Great Society" ideology, ran for presidency once but failed, proposed to use nuclear bombs against Vietnam	Barry Goldwater	32%
Chief Justice	Overthrew racial segregation in Warren v. Board of Education	Earl Warren	32%
Cabinet Member	Secertary of Defense, triggered the Vietnam War and had to resign after increasingly intense protests, later became president of World Bank	Robert McNamara	29%
Third Party Leader	Stablize agricultural product prices during the New Deal, advocated in cooperating with the Soviet Union, established the "Progressive Party"	Henry Wallace	25%
State Governor	Governor of California, ended "Affirmative Actions" in California, the governor with the longest tenure in California	Jerry Brown	21%
Vice President	One of the main opponents of the New Deal, committed to increasing the power of the Supreme Court	John N. Garner	18%
State Governor	Governor of Illinois, participated in two presidential election, but both failed	Adlai Stevenson II	14%
State Governor	Governor of New York, Catholic, advocated for the repeal of the Prohibition law and participated in a presidential election	Al Smith	14%
Vice President	Presided over the formulation of a plan named after him to address the issue of reparations for Germany after World War I	Charles G. Dawes	14%
Third Party Leader	Firebombed Tokyo, organized Berlin airlift, later became a third party leader and ran for vice president	Curtis LeMay	14%
Congressman	First female congressman in the US, cast veto votes in both congressional votings deciding whether to enter a World War	Jeannette Rankin	14%
Cabinet Member	German American, Secretary of Treasury, presided over the Bretton Woods Conference, propose transforming Germany into an agricultural state	Henry Morgenthau Jr.	11%
Cabinet Member	Secretary of State, advocated the use of diplomatic means to deal with the challenges posed by the Soviet Union, participated in the ceasefire negotiations for Korean War	John F. Dulles	11%
Cabinet Member	Secretary of State, viewed as "Father of the United Nations"	Cordell Hull	7%
Cabinet Member	Served as Secretary of State and later Secretary of the Army, refused to recognize Manchukuo, reorganized the US Army on the eve of World War II, proposed to use atomic bombs against Japan	Henry Stimson	7%
Vice President	Born at a wealthy business family, served as the governor of New York for 14 years, ousted his opponent from power in the Watergate scandal, nominated as the vice president by the succeeding president	Nelson Rockfeller	7%
State Governor	Governor of Arkansas, supported Segregation in school and caused the Little Rock City Incident	Orval Faubus	7%
Cabinet Member	Secretary of Treasury, lowered corporate tax rates to restore economic prosperity, but this widened wealth gap and indirectly led to the Great Depression	Andrew W. Mellon	4%
Cabinet Member	Secretary of Defense, significantly expanded US military spending in late Cold War and advocated dragging down the Soviet Union through "low-intensity warfare"	Caspar W. Weinberger	4%
Cabinet Member	Secretary of State, strongly implemented the strategy of containing the Soviet Union, advocated rearming Germany and control Asia, Africa and Latin America	Dean Acheson	4%
Third Party Leader	Leader of Communist Party of USA, be put in jail for 14 months, disbanded CPUSA at last	Earl R. Browder	4%
Cabinet Member	Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of State, alleviated stagflation, pushed for the signing of the INF Treaty between the US and the Soviet Union	George Shultz	4%
Cabinet Member	Secretary of the Air Force, Created the modern US Air Force, proposed to force Germany and Japan to surrender through "strategic bombing"	Henry H. Arnold	4%
Congressman	Was the Governor of Louisiana before elected senator, proposed "Wealth Sharing Plan" and the slogan "Everyone a King"	Huey P. Lang	4%
President's Consultant	"Female wolf warrior," professor of political science, the first female permanent representative of the US to the UN	Jeane Kirkpatrick	4%
Cabinet Member	Attorney General, promoted the enactment of the Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Civil Rights Act	Ramsey Clark	4%
Cabinet Member	Secretary of the Navy, first Secretary of Defense, dead mysteriously	James Forrestal	0%
State Governor	Governor of New York, strongly cracked down on crime in New York, participated in the presidential election twice but both failed	Thomas Duwe	0%

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