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Leaders Of The Cold War. The Cold War period of 19851991 began with the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. A battle of ideas overlaid on a great-power contest. Truman was the first Cold War President. Kennedy 1917 1963 US President 1961-63 As President he helped to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis which came perilously close to escalation.
A lesson to cover the various leaders - Soviet and American - across the span of the Cold War. Chernenko replaced Andropov as leader despite his own ailing health. Prior to this the USSR had been strictly prohibiting liberal reform and maintained an inefficient command economy. Seeing early that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was a. The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc after World War IIHistorians do not fully agree on the dates but the period is generally considered to span the 1947 Truman Doctrine to the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet UnionThe term cold is used because there was no large. Brezhnev continued to help him rise through the ranks with Chernenko gaining full membership to the Central Committee in 1971.
Kennedy 1917 1963 US President 1961-63 As President he helped to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis which came perilously close to escalation.
A good source of info is the cnn cold war files just type in an of these names with cold war on Google and. Brezhnev continued to help him rise through the ranks with Chernenko gaining full membership to the Central Committee in 1971. During its sixty-nine-year history the Soviet Union usually had a de facto leader who would not necessarily be head of state but would lead while holding an office such as Premier or General SecretaryUnder the 1977 Constitution the Chairman of the Council of Ministers or Premier was the head of government and the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was the head of state. Kennedy 1917 1963 US President 1961-63 As President he helped to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis which came perilously close to escalation. A battle of ideas overlaid on a great-power contest. Of most consequence Shultzalong with Reagansaw the Cold War for what it was.