Leaders Flashcards
1
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Leaders at the start of 1940
A
FDR Churchill Hitler Mussolini Yonai Molotov
2
Q
Leaders at the end of WW2
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Truman Churchill Hitler/Goebbels Bonomi Koiso Stalin
3
Q
Leaders in 1947 (‘start’ of the cold war)
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Truman
Attlee
Stalin
4
Q
Leaders in 1989
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Reagan/Bush
Thatcher
Gorbachev
5
Q
US leaders during the cold war
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Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Nixon Ford Carter Reagan
6
Q
USSR leaders during the cold war
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Stalin Malenkov Bulganin Khrushchev Brezhnev Gorbachev
7
Q
FDR
A
Identified with the lower classes
8
Q
Truman
A
Dropped the atomic bomb
Korean War
Germany surrendered
9
Q
Eisenhower
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Korea, Vietnam
Yugoslavia, Poland
Hungary, Suez
D-Day, a commander.
Did as little as possible with his crises
Overcautious
10
Q
JFK
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Incautious
Cuba - Bay of Pigs - Cuban missile crisis
11
Q
LBJ
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Campaigned as a peace advocate
Inherited JFK’s war
12
Q
Nixon
A
Too scared to lose = watergate
13
Q
Carter
A
the idealist
14
Q
Bush H
A
Multilateral internationalist
15
Q
Clinton
A
Multilateral but disengaged
