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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
Affiliation(set)
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
French general who fought in the revolutions of two continents
Military command · Feuillants
1757–1834
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Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson
US president whose Fourteen Points and League of Nations failed to win the Senate’s ratification
Political and party leadership · United States state institutions
1856–1924
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William S. Graves William Sidney Graves
General who led the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia in 1918–1920 and kept it strictly neutral in the Russian Civil War
Military command · United States state institutions
1865–1940
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Cordell Hull Cordell Hull
An American diplomat who pressed for free trade and international institutions
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1871–1955
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Herbert C. Hoover Herbert Hoover
Master of famine relief and the 31st president, broken by the Great Depression
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1874–1964
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William D. Leahy William D. Leahy
The five-star chief of staff who warned Roosevelt the Yalta Poland deal was 'so elastic' it could stretch from Yalta to Washington
Military command · United States state institutions
1875–1959
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William N. Haskell William N. Haskell
An international relief commander amid famine
Military command · United States state institutions
1878–1952
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George C. Catlett Marshall George C. Marshall
The only American to head the Army, the State Department, and the Pentagon, organizer of Allied victory and architect of the Marshall Plan
Military command · United States state institutions
1880–1959
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Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur
UN commander who conceived the Inchon landing and overruled the unanimous opposition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Military command · United States state institutions
1880–1964
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William L. Lockhart Clayton William L. Clayton
Free-trade champion who built the world's largest cotton firm, then set the Marshall Plan in motion with his memo on Europe's collapse
Economy, finance and planning · United States state institutions
1880–1966
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Franklin D. Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only four-term president, who carried America through depression and war and spent his last strength at Yalta
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1882–1945
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James F. Francis Byrnes James F. Byrnes
Roosevelt's "assistant president" who, as Secretary of State, designed the Potsdam reparations compromise
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1882–1972
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Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman
The 33rd president who framed the Cold War with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1884–1972
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George S. Patton George Smith Patton Jr.
An aggressive commander of mobile warfare and military deception
Military command · United States state institutions
1885–1945
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Chester Nimitz Chester William Nimitz
The admiral who reorganized Pacific power through intelligence and mobility
Military command · United States state institutions
1885–1966
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Frank Jack Fletcher Frank Jack Fletcher
An operational commander of the carrier age
Military command · United States state institutions
1885–1973
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Raymond A. Spruance Raymond Ames Spruance
A cool-headed carrier commander at Midway
Military command · United States state institutions
1886–1969
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Alexander Vandegrift Alexander Vandegrift
The general who defended Guadalcanal and the Marine Corps
Military command · United States state institutions
1887–1973
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John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles
An American diplomat who drove the Cold War through alliance-building
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1888–1959
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Harry Hopkins Harry Hopkins
A New Deal administrator turned wartime diplomatic envoy
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1890–1946
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John P. Lucas John Porter Lucas
The cautious commander of Anzio
Military command · United States state institutions
1890–1949
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower
The five-star general who led D-Day and warned America against the military-industrial complex
Military command · United States state institutions
1890–1969
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Sumner Welles Sumner Welles
US Under Secretary of State whose Welles Declaration of July 1940 refused to recognise the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1892–1961
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Edward Mallory Almond Edward Mallory Almond
A U.S. general whose offensive command was bound to racial prejudice
Military command · United States state institutions
1892–1979
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Allen Dulles Allen Dulles
The American intelligence official who institutionalized covert war
Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions
1893–1969
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Oliver P. Smith Oliver Prince Smith
A Marine commander whose caution helped save a surrounded division
Military command · United States state institutions
1893–1977
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Omar Nelson Bradley Omar Nelson Bradley
The U.S. Army commander who led the Normandy campaign
Military command · United States state institutions
1893–1981
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Robert Daniel Murphy Robert Daniel Murphy
The diplomat who read the danger in Berlin first
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1894–1978
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William K. Harrison Jr. William K. Harrison Jr.
The US Army lieutenant general who signed the Korean Armistice as UNC delegate after 158 truce meetings
Military command · United States state institutions
1895–1987
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John J. McCloy John Jay McCloy
A pragmatic architect of the postwar U.S. international order
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1895–1989
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Mark W. Clark Mark W. Clark
An Allied commander caught between military gains and civilian cost
Military command · United States state institutions
1896–1984
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Lucius D. Clay Lucius D. Clay
The US military governor who answered the blockade of West Berlin with a 324-day airlift
Military command · United States state institutions
1897–1978
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Edward Stettinius Edward Stettinius
A corporate executive turned architect of the postwar international order
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1900–1949
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Two-time presidential nominee who pressed the Soviet Union over its missiles in Cuba at the UN Security Council
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1900–1965
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Maxwell Davenport Taylor Maxwell Taylor
A military strategist of the nuclear age
Military command · United States state institutions
1901–1987
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John Alexander McCone John Alexander McCone
CIA director who alone warned that Soviet missiles were coming to Cuba
Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions
1902–1991
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Llewellyn E. Thompson Llewellyn Thompson
The US Ambassador to Moscow who knew Khrushchev personally and, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, told Kennedy to ignore the second letter
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1904–1972
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Charles E. Eustis Bohlen Charles E. Bohlen
The State Department Soviet expert who turned Kennan's and Clayton's policy memos into Marshall's Harvard speech
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1904–1974
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William H. Tunner William H. Tunner
Architect of large-scale airlift operations
Military command · United States state institutions
1906–1983
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Curtis E. LeMay Curtis LeMay
The Air Force general who firebombed Japan and urged nuclear war on his adversaries
Military command · United States state institutions
1906–1990
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James Webb James Edwin Webb
The administrator who organized Apollo
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1906–1992
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Ernest Gross Ernest A. Gross
An international lawyer who worked the UN’s procedures
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1906–1999
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Paul Nitze Paul Nitze
A Cold War strategist who moved between nuclear buildup and arms control
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1907–2004
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Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson
A Cold War president caught between reform and war
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1908–1973
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Edward Geary Lansdale Edward Lansdale
The Mongoose architect whose six-phase Cuba overthrow plan convinced the Soviets invasion was coming
Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions
1908–1987
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Dean Rusk Dean Rusk
A Cold War diplomat who built containment through international coalitions
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1909–1994
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George Ball George Ball
The Under Secretary who stopped an airstrike on Cuba with the Pearl Harbor analogy, then alone opposed escalation in Vietnam
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1909–1994
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Ronald Wilson Reagan Ronald Reagan
The Cold War's last American president, who genuinely believed in nuclear abolition but would not yield on SDI
Political and party leadership · United States state institutions
1911–2004
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Henry M. Jackson Henry M. Jackson
A hawkish Democratic senator who tied Soviet trade status to Jewish emigration
Political and party leadership · United States state institutions
1912–1983
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Richard Milhous Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon
The Cold Warrior who opened détente with Moscow and Beijing, then became the only U.S. president to resign
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1913–1994