People of the Revolution and the USSR
Government and administration
Counter-revolutionary forces
The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재
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- Rhee Syngman 이승만 First president of South Korea who demanded unification by force and refused to sign the armistice
- Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman The 33rd president who framed the Cold War with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
- Ngô Đình Diệm Ngô Đình Diệm Politician who became State of Vietnam premier in 1954, ousted Bảo Đại and was South Vietnam’s first president until killed in 1963
- Fulgencio Batista Fulgencio Batista A Cuban ruler who shifted between electoral legitimacy and military power
- Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson A Cold War president caught between reform and war
- 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
- Robert McNamara Robert McNamara The quantitative defense secretary who led the Vietnam War and helped prevent nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis
- John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy The youngest U.S. president, who took the world to the brink of nuclear war and back
- Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński Carter's National Security Advisor who drew the Soviet Union into the Afghan trap