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| FDR's VP and successor, became President, met with Stalin and Great Britain at Potsdam Conference, adopted containment policy, promoted and executed Truman Doctrine, authorized H-Bomb construction |
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| Chinese communist leader who had stronghold in northwestern China fought against Jiang Jieshi and Nationalists, created Peoples Republic of China, conquered Tibet, promoted communal farms, promoted Red Guard revolution |
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| Chinese Nationalist leader who had stronghold in SW China supported by US, fought against Zedong, fled to Taiwan |
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| Commanding UN general of 15 natinos lead surprise attack on Communist North Korea, called for Nuclear Attack on China, fired by Truman |
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| Vietnamese anti-communist leader installed by US and France in S Vietnam, hated by Vietcong, assasinated by S Vietnamese general who hated him |
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| Young vietnamese nationalist who turned to communists for help in getting freedom from France, sentenced to death but escaped to exile, founded Vietminh League defeated Frence ruled north Vietnam, supported Vietcong |
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| leader of Cambodian communist rebel group "Khymer Rouge" followers slaughtered 2 million Cambodians, overthrown by Vietnamese |
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| young Cuban lawyer who overthrew Batista, praised for social and economic reforms but was a harsh dictator, took over US companies forcing trade embargo,allied with USSR and involved in Cuban Missile Crisis, defeated US at BAy of Pigs |
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| Nicaraguan Sandanista leader who overthrew Anastasio Somoza's son, Communist supporter in El Salvador revolt, civil war lasted decade,agreed to hold free elections and defeated by Chammoro |
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| Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini |
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| leader of the ayatollahs, lived in exile, excited Iranian rebels by recorded messages, hated US and supported radical overthrows |
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| Nicaraguan dictator who was supported by US since 1983, son toppled by Sandanistas and Ortega |
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| Stalin's successor as USSR leader, shrewd and tough, began Destalinization, showed power and force by invading Hungary, lost prestige in Cuban Missile Crisis, removed and replaced by Leonid Brezhniv |
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| USSR leader who replaced Khruschev, repressive laws and secret police, harsh to dissent, put down Prague Spring, signed SALT I and SALT II agreements |
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| US President during Cuban Missile Crisis, assasinated in 1963 and replaced by Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| US president who replace JFK, committed to stopping the spread of communism, escalated involvement in Vietnam, replaced by Nixon |
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| US president who replaced Johnson and began detente policy based on realpolitik, 1st US pres to visit communist China, took part in SALT agreements and Helsinki Accord |
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| Fiercely anti-communist US pres who took office in 1981 moved away from detente and announced SDI program |
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| leader of the Muslim League in India, insisted that all Muslims resign from the Congress Party, governor of Pakistan |
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| India's 1st prime minister as an independent nation, 1st Indian leader for 17 yrs, Ghandi's most devoted follower, educated in Britain and popular in India, called for reorganization of Indian states by language, died 1964 and replaced by daughter Indira Ghandi |
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