Names Flashcards
Gomulka
Deputy prime minister of Poland
Accused of ‘national deviation’
Tito
Yugoslavia
Gottwald
Czech communist party leader
Accepted Marshall aid = error
Mao Zedong
China communist leader
Kim Il-Sung
North Korean leader
Malenkov
Prime ministers +2 years after Stalin
John foster Dulles
Eisenhowers Secretary of State
Molotov
Soviet foreign minister 1939-1949 and the 1953-57
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet foreign minister
Nagy
Hungarian communist
Wanted to leave Warsaw Pact and get US help, executed
Dobrynin
Soviet ambassador (CMC)
Henry Kissinger
Key advisor to Nixon
Brezhnev leader
1966-1990
Dubcek
Czech leader wanted ‘socialism with a human face’
Forced to sign ‘Moscow protocol’ reversing his reforms
Kosygin
Chairman of the council of ministers USSR
Cyrus Vance
Brezinski
(CARTER)
- supported détente
- wanted to marginalise USSR
Deny Xiaoping
1978 China’s main leader
Shevardnadze
1985 replaced Gromyko as USSR foreign minister
Shultz
Reagan Secretary of State
Yeltsin
First secretary of the Moscow party committee (Gorby)
Lord Carrington
1991 chief EC negotiator (yugo)
Izetbegovic
Independent Bosnia-Herzegovina president 1990-96
Karadzic
Mladic
President of Serb republic
Chief of Serb forces
Milosevic
President of Yugoslavia
Orthodox
The USSR were aggressive expansionist
Revisionist
U.S. we’re only concerned with economic imperialism
Post revisionist
Both sides to blame predicted tension between two world powers/misunderstandings common
