Cold War Key people

• Franklin D. Roosevelt - US, President, 1945, Yalta Conference, WWII
• Winston Churchill - UK, Prime Minister, 1945-1946, Yalta, Potsdam, Greek Civil War, Iron Curtain Speech
• Joseph Stalin - USSR, Soviet Leader, 1945-1953, Eastern Bloc, Communism, Yalta, Potsdam, Korean War, Berlin Blockade, Sino-Soviet Alliance 1950
• Clement Atlee - UK, Prime Minister, 1945, Potsdam
• Harry S. Truman - US, President, 1945-1952, WWII, Atomic Bomb, Containment, Potsdam, 1947 Truman Doctrine , 1949 Berlin Blockade, 1950-1953 Korean War
• Tito - Yugoslavia, Leader, non East/West 1945-1948
• Wladyslaw Gomulka - Poland, leader, National Hero, 1945-1956, 1956 Polish Uprising
• Edvard Benes - Czechoslovakia, 1946-48
• George Kennan - US, 1946 Long Telegram, Containment
• Zhdanov - USSR, dismissed in 1948, Zhdanov Doctrine
• Dean G. Acheson - US, Containment, 1947 Marshall Plan
• George Marshall - US, 1947 Marshall Plan, European Economic Aid
• Vyshinsky - Romania, Communist, Cominform, Yalta & Potsdam
• Lucius Clay - US, German-American Zone, German economic reconstruction
• Konrad Adenaur - Germany, First Chancellor of West Germany 1949-1963
• Douglas MacArthur - US, Supreme commander of Asian forces, WWII, Korean War, Fired by Truman in 1951
• Hirohito - Japan, Emperor, 1945, WWII
• Joseph Morrell Dodge - US, economic advisor for Germany and Japan US policy
• Mao Zedong -China, Leader of the CCP, 1949 Chinese Civil War, 1958 Great Leap Forward, 1954 and 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis, 1966 Chinese Cultural Revolution, Sino-Soviet Alliance 1950 and Sino-US Alliance 1972, 1971 Ping Pong Diplomacy
• Shigeru Yoshida - Japan, WWII, economic recovery
• John Foster Dulles - US, new look policy
• Jiang Jeshi - China, Taiwan, Chinese Civil War
• Kim Il Sung - North Korea, Korean War
• Syngman Rhee - South Korea, Korean War
• Zhao Enlai - China, PRC, Communist
• Algar Hiss - McCarthyism, 1950, accused of being a communist spy, US
• Joseph McCarthy - McCarthyism (1940s-1950s), the red scare, US
• Dwight D. Eisenhower - US President (1953-1960), Geneva Conference 1954, Korean War, Camp David Talks 1959, Vietnam, New Look Policy, Peaceful Coexistence, U2 Spy Plane Incident 1960
• Matthew Ridgeway - Military career in Korea, US Army, 1950-53
• Ho Chi Minh - North Vietnam, 1954 Dien Bien Fu, Vietnam War 1955-1975
• Ngo Dinh Diem - South Vietnam, Strategic Hamlets, financial embezzlement, Buddhist Crisis 1963, Vietnam War, Assassinated in 1963
• Nikita Khrushchev - USSR Leader 1956-1964, Destalinisation, 1956 Secret Speech, 1956 Polish & Hungarian Uprising, 1961 Berlin Wall, Camp David 1959, Peaceful Coexistence, Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
• Imre Nagy - Hungary, 1956 Hungarian Uprising, Yugoslavia
• John F. Kennedy - US President 1961-1963, Vietnam (counter-insurgency and strategic Hamlets), 1961 Operation Mongoose and Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, 1961 Berlin Wall, Assassinated in 1963
• Yuri Gagarin - USSR, First man in space 1961, Sputnik, Space Race
• General Maxwell Taylor - US, Vietnam Policies
• Robert McNamara - US, Vietnam, massive retaliation, non-nuclear warfare
• Tri Quang - North Vietnam, Buddhist Crisis 1963
• Henry Cabot Lodge - US, believed Diem was a liability, US ambassador to Vietnam
• Fidel Castro - Cuba, nationalist, 1959 Cuban Revolution, 1961 Bay of Pigs and Operation Mongoose, Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, Detente