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Unit 7 US History
Part 2
Question | Answer |
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Julius Rosenberg | He and his wife were convicted of espionage and executed |
Thurgood Marshall | He was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court |
Hermann Goering | The lead spokesperson for the Nazi defendants, he committed suicide the night before his scheduled execution. |
Jackie Robinson | The first African American to play Major League baseball. He paved the way for other black athletes. |
Audie Murphy | The most-decorated American soldier of the war, he earned 33 medals while capturing or killing 240 Axiz soldiers |
Robert H. Jackson | This Supreme Court justice was the lead to American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials |
Joseph McCarthy | This senator investigated the State Department in an effort to root out communist agents. |
Mao Tse-tung | After defeating nationalist adversaries, he created a communist state in China |