Communist Leaders Flashcards
Leader of North Korea during the Korean War.
Kim II Sung
Leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Khrushchev
Leader of China during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution.
Mao Zedong
Leader of the USSR during the Great Purge, the Ukrainian Famine(genocide) and WWII.
Stalin
Leader of North Vietnam during the Cold War.
Ho Chi Minh
Leader of Cambodia during the genocide known as the Killing Fields.
Pol Pot
Leader of the first successful Communist Revolution in history and creator of the New Economic Policy(NEP).
Lenin
Revolutionary leader who established communism in Cuba.
Castro
Communist leader who implemented the policies of perestroika and glasnost which led to the collapse of the USSR.
Gorbachev
Communist leader who transformed China into a capitalist country and ordered the massacre in Tiananmen Square.(One child policy, 4 modernizations)
Deng Xiaoping