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Down: 1) born in Baltimore in 1908 to an interracial family; nation's first African American Supreme Court Justice and a leader in the civil rights movement2) graduated from the VMI in 1901 and from the Army Staff College in 1908; Five Star General that served as Chief of Staff of the War Plans Division during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt; represented President Truman on a special mission to China; became Truman's Secretary of State; formulated and proposed the Marshall Plan; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 19533) a US Senator from Wisconsin from 1947-1957 who accused numerous individuals in the US government of being Communists during televised Senate committee hearings4) commanded the Pacific Fleet during WW2; represented the US when the Japanese surrendered aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay; served as a goodwill ambassador with the United Nations6) served as a Republican US Senator from California; Eisenhower's Vice President; 37th President of the US; became embroiled in the Watergate Scandal and became the only President in history to resign the office because of impending impeachment Across: 1) an elite unit during WW2 in the Pacific Theatre; used traditional Navajo words to describe events and then created new words that were only known to those who had been trained; the code was never broken and was so protected that is was not declassified until 1968; awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 20015) a Lutheran minister who supported the American cause in which he cited the verse from Ecclesiastes which begins "To everything there is a season...a time of peace and a time of war. And this is a time of war"; later served in the Continental Army; present during the winter at Valley Forge; served in the Pennsylvania state government before being elected to the US Congress7) became one of the most important military strategists of the 19th and early 20th centuries; fought in the American Civil War; served as President of the Naval War College at Newport, RI; educated at the US Naval Academy; became an admiral and noted naval historian; his book, The Influence of Sea Power, detailed the important relationship between a strong navy and successful world commerce8) born in Hawaii; graduated from Columbia University and received a law degree from Harvard; elected as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives; became a US Senator from Illinois; elected 44th President of the US in 2008; first African American president
 

 

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