Cold War Leaders

British Prime Minister from 1979-1990, stood strong against communism and earned the nickname “Iron Lady”

• Margaret Thatcher
• Fidel Castro
• Mao Zedong
• Ngo Dinh Diem

American President who visited China for the first time during the cold war, pushed for a policy of Détente and brought troops home from Vietnam.

• John F Kennedy
•   Richard Nixon
• Ronald Reagan
• Winston Churchill

American President who faced off against Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• John F Kennedy
•   Richard Nixon
• Ronald Reagan
• Winston Churchill

Leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin, he started the destalinization of the Soviet Union.

• Khruschev
• Ho Chi Minh
• John F Kennedy
• Mao Zedong

Leader of South Vietnam, was anti – communist, and overthrown in a coup.

• Mao Zedong
• Ho Chi Minh
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• Fidel Castro

Nationalist leader in China, after the civil war he fled to Taiwan.

• Mao Zedong
• Ho Chi Minh
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• Jiang Jieshi

Communist leader of Cuba, that worked with the Soviet Union to point missiles at the United States.

• John F Kennedy
• Joseph Stalin
• Fidel Castro
• Ronald Reagan

Communist leader of China that won the civil war, he also expanded China into Tibet.

• Mao Zedong
• Ho Chi Minh
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• Fidel Castro

Communist leader of North Vietnam, renamed the fallen capital of Saigon after himself.

• Mao Zedong
• Ho Chi Minh
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• Fidel Castro

Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII, met with the United States to discuss the end of the war at the Yalta conference.

• Joseph Stalin
• Nikita Khruschev
• Winston Churchill
• Ronald Reagan