Cold War

Introduction:

The Cold War began in 1945 at the end of World War II. The conflict lasted until the early 1990's when Communist rule came to an end in a number of Eastern European countries. During the Cold War, leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States played key roles in initiating, escalating, and resolving the conflict.

Soviet leaders:

Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev

U.S. leaders:

Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush