How Did Henry Wallace Impact Administration

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1. Fidel Castro was a Cuban leader who started the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades.
2. Dwight D. Eisenhower a Republican was the 34th President of the United States. He served two terms from 1953 to 1961. Eisenhower commanded the D-Day invasion and serve as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II.
3. Orval Faubus was the Democratic Governor of Arkansas. He was well known for his stand against the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. He deployed National Guardsmen to block Supreme Court who ordered school integration.
4. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist. Martin Luther led the civil rights movement in the United
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Julius Rosenberg impacted the era through his trial. The trial of Julius Rosenberg was over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. Treason could not be charged because the United States was not at war with the Soviet Union. Making an impact on trial and treason forever.
13. Henry Wallace impacted administration, more than any previous vice president. Wallace`s influenced many toured countries in Latin America Wallace`s concern for the welfare of Latin American countries led to his insistence that any supply contracts made with Latin American countries. Through this he included a “labor clause" that made producers pay their workers equally and provide them with a safe working environment.
14. Alger Hiss worked in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1948, Whitaker Chambers accused Hiss of having been a member of an underground communist organization. The case against Hiss began in 1948, when Whittaker Chambers, an admitted ex-communist and an editor with Time magazine, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and charged that Hiss was a communist in the 1930s and