cold war leaders

COLD WAR LEADERS ____________

1964-1982_________1927-1953

____________1956-1964

___________1985-1991

__________1945-1953

__________1953-1961

_________1961-1963

1945 1991

__________ 1981-1989

_______1989-1993

________ 1977-1981

______1974-1977

_________ 1969-1974

__________1963-1969

-

_________1991- 1999

COLD WAR LEADERS Brezhnev1964-1982

Stalin1927-1953

Khrushchev1956-1964

Gorbachev1985-1991

- Last Communist leader- End of Cold War

- Glasnost (Openness)

- Perestroika (Economic Change)- USSR breaks up

Big Eye BrowsMore Hard-line Commi

Shoe at UNMan of Steel30 yr dictatorship, Gulag

USA Ally = WWII Start of Cold War

Truman1945-1953

Start of Cold War

Eisenhower1953-1961

Kennedy1961-1963

1945 1991

Farewell SpeechMilitary Industrial

Complex 1961

Reagan 1981-1989

Actor

Bush1989-1993

Listen LBJ phone chats on c-span.org

Peanut FarmerServed on Nuclear

Submarine

Carter 1977-1981

Only CatholicYoungest

Assassinated 63

Ford1974-1977

Nixon 1969-1974

LBJ1963-1969

Only to resign 74Watergate Affair

Only not elected

BrinkmanshipBerlin Wall 61

Cuban Missile Crisis1962

Vietnam advisors

Vietnam 54 – 61CIA rigs Iran

Mossedeq out Shah in 53

“Red Scare”Sputnik 57

“Open Skies”U-2 Incident 60

US Civil Rights Gulf of Tonkin 64Tet Offensive 68

Mai Lai Massacre 69

Iron Curtain 46Containment 46Marshall Plan 47Berlin Airlift 47

CIA 49NATO 49

Korean War 50-53

CIA Director1976

Iron Curtain 46Containment 46Marshall Plan 47

Berlin Blockade 47Molotov Plan

Warsaw Pact 55

De-Stalinization 54?Hungarian Revolt 56

Sputnik 57Open Skies 60U-2 Incident 60

Cuban Missile Crisis 62Berlin Wall 61-89

Crushed DissidentsCzechoslovakia 68

Détente 70s SALT 70s

Stagnation (Ignored Economy crumbling) 70s“Stability” 60-70s

Cold War Thaws 70sAfghanistan Invasion 79

DétenteVietnamization

Mai Lai Massacre 69Cambodia Bombing

China Visit 72Chile Sept 11, 1973

Watergate 74

- Pardoned Nixon

- East Timor starts

- Vietnam ends 75

- Detente- SALT

- Detente-SALT

-Iran Hostage-Afghanistan

-support

- Debt Spendingto topple Soviets

-No Détente-Star Wars (SDI)

-Iran Contra Scandal-“Tear down wall”

-INF Treaty to reduce nukes

Berlin War 89USSR Ends 91Cold War End

Yeltsin1991- 1999

- Defied August Coup

- Stop Commi comeback

- 1st DemocraticPresident of Russia- Capitalist Disaster

- Oligarchs Rule-“Shock Therapy”

- Corruption- Instability

COLD WAR LEADERS ____________

1964-1982_________1927-1953

____________1956-1964

___________1985-1991

__________1945-1953

__________1953-1961

_________1961-1963

1945 1991

__________ 1981-1989

_______1989-1993

________ 1977-1981

______1974-1977

_________ 1969-1974

__________1963-1969

-

_________1991- 1999

Associated with De-Stalinization

What was De-Stalinization?

Khrushchev

De-Stalinization was a policy to end Stalin’s

cult of personality, his gulags and rule by fear after his

death in 1953.

Khrushchev

Associated with the U-2 Incident

What was the U-2 Incident?

Khrushchev

Eisenhower

Khrushchev

U-2 Incident: A US spy plane shot

down while taking photos of ICBM development

sites in the Soviet Union.

Eisenhower

President that tried to establish Brinkmanship

What is the policy

of Brinkmanship?

Kennedy

Brinkmanship: Risky strategy where America acts as if it is

willing to launch nuclear weapons to make the Soviet Union give up.

Kennedy

Involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis

What was the CubanMissile Crisis?

Khrushchev

Kennedy

Khrushchev

Conflict between the Soviet Union and the

United States over the Soviet deployment of

nuclear missiles in Cuba

Kennedy

ALL who were associated with SALT

What was SALT?

Brezhnev

Ford Carter

Brezhnev

Strategic Arms Limitation Talk;

Agreement to lower amount of ICBM’s

pointed at each nation

Ford Carter

Associated with term Vietnamization

What were the efforts

of Vietnamization?

Nixon

Goal was to transfer responsibility of fighting to South

Vietnamese in order to begin pulling US troops

out of Vietnam

Nixon

Berlin Wall went up

Why did it go up? What was the year?

Khrushchev

Kennedy

Built in 1961 to divide East and

West Berlin

Khrushchev

Kennedy

Associated with the Tet Offensive

LBJ

What wasThe Tet

Offensive?

LBJ

Attacks by Vietcong against

US and its Southern

Republic allies

Termed as the Last Communist leader

Gorbachev

Through his economic and

political reforms, he made the

govt. less communistic.

Associated with Détente

Nixon CarterFord

Brezhnev

What was Détente?

Nixon CarterFord

Brezhnev

Opposite of brinkmanship; general

reduction of tension between Soviet Union

and USA

Involved in Watergate Scandal

What was This

Scandal?

Nixon

Nixon

Political scandal in which burglars broke into the Democratic National

Committee headquarters in Washington DC.

Associated with Mai Lai Massacre

Nixon

What was theMai Lai Massacre?

Nixon

Americans conducted the mass murder of at

least 347 innocent Vietnamese civilians.

Only not elected President

Ford

Associated with beginning of CIA

Truman

What does CIA stand for and what

Was it’s purpose?

Central Intelligence AgencyThey are responsible for

providing national securityintelligence to Senior United

States policymakers.

Truman

Associated with putting the Shah in power

Eisenhower

Who was the Shah? How was the CIA involved?

Eisenhower

The Shah was the emperor of IranWho was overthrown by the Iranian

Revolution on Feb 11. 1979The CIA was involved with the ShahBy putting him into power in Iran over

The democratic leader Mosaddeq.

Associated with the starting of NATO in 49

What does NATO stand for and what was it’s purpose?

Truman

North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationAmerica, Canada, and Western Europe

formed a military alliance in order toprotect themselves form the USSR.

Truman

Associated with the “Red Scare”

What was the “Red Scare”?How did it affect everyday

Life in America?

Eisenhower

Associated with the Perestroika

What was Perestroika?

Gorbachev

Associated with the Iran Hostage

What happenedWith the

Iran Hostage?

Carter

Associated with the end of Détente policy

Why did ReaganEnd Détente?

Reagan

Why did ReaganEnd Détente?

Reagan

Associated with the end of the USSR

Why did USSRCome to an end?

Gorbachev

Bush

Associated with Gulf Of Tonkin Incident

What happened At the Gulf Of Tonkin?

Gorbachev

LBJ

First Democratic President of Russia

How was YeltsinPerceived? Was heDoing a good job?

Yeltsin

Associated with Korean War

Who won the Korean War?

Was it a success?

Truman

Who won the Korean

Truman