I will show you some pictures of the leaders from the era of Cold
War.
Communist Leaders
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Vladimir
Lenin led the Russian Revolution and founded the Soviet state. Following his
death in 1923, he was succeeded by Joseph Stalin, who adopted more
dictatorial methods of governing than Lenin.
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Kim
Il-Sung ruled communist North Korea from 1948 until his death in 1994,
leading his nation through the Korean War. His son, Kim Jong-Il, is the
country's current leader, and has often clashed with the West over his
nuclear ambitions.
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Khrushchev
sparred with the United States over the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Crisis,
but attempted some degree of "thaw" in domestic policies in the
Soviet Union, easing travel restrictions and freeing thousands of Stalin's
political prisoners.
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Josip
Broz Tito was a revolutionary and chief architect of the "second
Yugoslavia," a socialist federation that lasted from World War II until
1991. He was the first communist leader in power to defy Soviet control and
promoted a policy of nonalignment between the two hostile blocs in the Cold
War.
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Gorbachev
was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until his resignation in December
1991. His programs of "perestroika" ("restructuring") and
"glasnost" ("openness") introduced profound changes in
economics, internal affairs and international relations.
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Che
Guevara was a prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution, and later a
guerrilla leader in South America. After his execution by the Bolivian army
in 1967, he was regarded as a martyred hero, and his image became an icon of
leftist radicalism.
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Stalin oversaw the post-war spread of communism throughout Eastern
Europe, often violently enforcing Soviet policies. The Eastern bloc would
repeatedly come into conflict with the West throughout the Cold War.
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Mao
Zedong was a theorist, soldier and statesman who led the communist People's
Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976. He transformed his nation,
but his often deadly programs, including the Great Leap Forward and the
Cultural Revolution, remain highly controversial.
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Zhou
Enlai was a leading communist figure in the Chinese Revolution, and premier of
the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976, He was instrumental in
opening up relations between the United States and China, resulting in
President Nixon's visit in 1972.
American
Leaders
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Harry
Truman had only been vice president for three months before assuming the
presidency. During his nearly eight years in office, he attempted to contain
the spread of communism as the Cold War heated up.
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General
George Marshall oversaw the Allied victory in World War II before serving as
both secretary of state and secretary of defense. He was instrumental in
developing the "Marshall Plan," aimed at rebuilding postwar Europe,
stabilizing the region and preventing the spread of communism.
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In
the 1940s, George Kennan developed the "containment†strategy to isolate the Soviet Union
and limit the spread of communism. Containment would become the prevailing
American foreign policy for decades, influencing U.S. involvement in Korea,
Vietnam and Eastern Europe.
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In
1972, Richard Nixon travelled to the Soviet Union to meet with Soviet leader
Leonid Brezhnev. The meeting resulted in two landmark weapons treaties and
eased tensions, ushering in a new policy known as détente.
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National
security advisor and secretary of state to Presidents Nixon and Ford,
Kissinger helped ease relations with the Soviet Union and China, and
negotiated an end to the Vietnam War. He remains a controversial figure for
his role in American actions in Cambodia, Latin America and elsewhere.
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Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev and President Jimmy Carter meet in Vienna to
negotiate the strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT II) on June 18, 1979.
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In
the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev
worked together to diffuse U.S.-Soviet tensions, and lay the groundwork for
the end of the Cold War.
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President
George H.W. Bush's decades of foreign policy experience made him uniquely
suited to oversee the U.S. reaction to the fall of the Soviet Union and the
end of the Cold War.
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From all this leader, who that you think give big impact to their country in term of economic, social, politics and so on?
ReplyDeleteI think, those leaders during the cold war has played their own roles to came with the ideologies that give a big influences to the cold war effect. For an example, the thirty-fifth U.S. president, John F. Kennedy, who set out to expand social welfare spending with his New Frontier program. Kennedy was elected in 1960, defeating Republican Richard M. Nixon. Feeling that their hands were tied by Eisenhower’s policy of “massive retaliation,” Kennedy and members of his foreign policy staff devised the tactic of “flexible response” to contain Communism. Kennedy also sent “military advisors” to support Ngo Dinh Diem’s corrupt regime in South Vietnam and formed the Alliance for Progress to fight poverty and Communism in Latin America. He also backed the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, which ultimately led to the Cuban missile crisis. In 1963, after Kennedy had spent roughly 1,000 days in office, he was assassinated, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson took office.
ReplyDeleteSo, I can tell you here, every leaders played their influential characteristic by their own way. I hope you understand what I told you. Keep asking me questions so I can help you.:)