FIDEL CASTRO
JACKIE KENNEDY
RICHARD NIXON
RONALD REAGAN40th president of the United States (1981-1989). In his first term he pursued, aggressively, a massive buildup in US weapons and troops, coininciding with escalating the Cold War. His strategy was to provide heavy support to anticommunist movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In 1983 he announced the Strategic Defense Intiative (SDI) sometimes known as "Star Wars", it was a highly ambitious (though possibly ludicrous) effort to create space based missiles in order to protect the U.S. from Soviet ICBMs. In his second term Reagan began to follow a different, more diplomatic tact. He was a blue to forge a highly productive diplomatic relationship with Gorbachev, the reform minded Soviet leader who rose to power in 1985. By 1987, the two had signed a historic agreement to eliminate all intermediate range nuclear missiles. Within the same year, the Berkin Wall was torn down, a powerfully symbolic event that was the stepping stone to the complete reunification of Germany, in 1990. The following year, the Soviet Union had dismantled and the War was over.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
JOSEPH STALIN
MIKHAIL S. GORBACHEVReformist Soviet leader who rose to power in 1985, as head of the country he majorly restructured the nation and in tandem with American president Ronald Reagan, brokered a peace and an end to the Cold War. This was in large part consequence of his dual programs of Perestroika and Glasnost.
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