Who were the leaders of Cold War?

Who were the leaders of Cold War?

National leaders

• Harry S. Truman – 1945–1953.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower – 1953–1961.
• John F. Kennedy – 1961–1963.
• Lyndon B. Johnson – 1963–1968.
• Richard Nixon – 1969–1974.
• Gerald Ford – 1974–1977.
• Jimmy Carter – 1977–1981.
• Ronald Reagan – 1981–1989.

Who were the leaders in the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

List of leaders

Name (lifetime)	Period
Joseph Stalin (1878–1953)	21 January 1924 ↓ 5 March 1953†
Georgy Malenkov (1902–1988)	5 March 1953 ↓ 14 September 1953
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971)	14 September 1953 ↓ 14 October 1964
Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982)	14 October 1964 ↓ 10 November 1982†

How many leaders of the Soviet Union were there?

Twelve individuals held the post. Of these two died in office of natural causes (Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin), three resigned – Alexei Kosygin, Nikolai Tikhonov and Ivan Silayev – and three were concurrently party leader and head of government (Lenin, Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev).

How did World War 2 lead to the Cold War?

As World War II transformed both the United States and the USSR, turning the nations into formidable world powers, competition between the two increased. Following the defeat of the Axis powers, an ideological and political rivalry between the United States and the USSR gave way to the start of the Cold War.

Who was responsible for the Cold War?

the Soviet Union
The United States and the Soviet Union both contributed to the rise of the Cold War. They were ideological nation-states with incompatible and mutually exclusive ideologies. The founding purpose of the Soviet Union was global domination, and it actively sought the destruction of the United States and its allies.

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Cold War?

Mikhail Gorbachev
During the Cold War the leadership of the Soviet Union underwent a gradual but dramatic shift from the dictatorial rule of Joseph Stalin at the beginning of the era to the reformist glasnost (“openness”) and perestroika (“restructuring”) policies of Mikhail Gorbachev, who would prove to be the final leader of the …

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union when ww2 started?

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953….

Joseph Stalin
Rank	Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943) Generalissimus of the Soviet Union (1945)