People of the Cold War

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Joseph Stalin - Dictator of Soviet Union 

Nikita Khrushchev - Dictator of Soviet Union after Stalin

Boris Yeltsin - Elected leader of Soviet Union in 1991

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President Harry S. Truman

General D. Eisenhower

Sen Joseph McCarthy - McCarthyism 

President Kennedy - Blockade of Soviet Union

President Lyndon Johnson - spoke against the Soviet Union 

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Yuri Gagarin - First man in space (Russion) 

Alan Sheppard - First American in Space 

John Glenn - First American to orbit the Earth 

Neil Armstrong - first man on the moon

Buzz Aldrin - Landed on the moon in 1969

 

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