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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
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_________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
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_________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