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Down: 1) a US Senator from Wisconsin from 1947-1957 who accused numerous individuals in the US government of being Communists during televised Senate committee hearings2) 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 20014) 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 president6) 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 Nations Across: 3) 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 impeachment5) 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 19537) born in Baltimore in 1908 to an interracial family; nation's first African American Supreme Court Justice and a leader in the civil rights movement8) 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 Congress9) 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 commerce
 

 

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