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Cold War Personalities

During the Cold War, many outstanding personalities exerted their influence, from politicians to writers, from royals to social activists. Can you guess the most outstanding of them?
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Last updated: April 28, 2024
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Dictator of Uganda (1971-1979)
Idi Amin
Political and human rights activist; the Communist Party member
Angela Davis
Minister of Foreign Affairs (1939-1949), Permanent Representative to the IAEA (1960-1963)
Vyacheslav Molotov
German and American scientist; constructor of rockets and bombs, Father of American space program
Wernher von Braun
Revolutionary, communist; co-founder of Black Panthers Movement
Huey Newton
President of the U. S. (1963-1969)
Lyndon Johnson
General Secretary of Hungary (1956-1989)
János Kádár
President of Egypt and United Arab Republic (1956-1970)
Gamal Nasser
Dictator of Ethiopia (1974-1991); head of the Derg, communist
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Rocket scientist; head constructor of OKB-1
Sergei Korolev
Diplomat, SecState of U. S.; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Henry Kissinger
Prime Minister of Canada (1968-1984)
Pierre Trudeau
First Secretary of Czechoslovakia (1968-1969); opportunist
Alexander Dubček
President of the U. S. (1974-1977)
Gerald Ford
Prime Minister of India (1947-1964); "father" of independent India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Prime Minister of Japan (1946-1947; 1948-1954)
Shigeru Yoshida
Pope (1978-2005)
John Paul II
Social activist, fighter for the rights; read "I Have a Dream'' speech
Martin Luther King Jr.
President of the Philippines (1965-1986); dictator
Ferdinand Marcos
President of France (1974-1981)
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
President and leader of Yugoslavia (1945-1980); founder of Non-aligned movement
Josip Broz Tito
Dictator of Nicaragua (1979-1990; 2007-)
Daniel Ortega
President of Chile (1970-1973); socialist
Salvador Allende
Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974)
Haile Selassie I
Dictator of Albania (1944-1985)
Enver Hoxha
Emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
Hirohito
Military; leader and dictator of Poland (1981-1990)
Wojcech Jaruzelski
Dictator of North Korea (1948-1994)
Kim Il Sung
Leader of China (1976-1989)
Deng Xiaoping
Social activist, dissident, anti-communist; President of Czechoslovakia (1989-1993)
Václav Havel
General Secretary of USSR (1984-1985)
Konstantin Chernenko
President of the U. S. (1977-1989)
Ronald Reagan
Syrian dictator (1970-2000)
Hafez Assad
Chancellor of FRG (1969-1974)
Willy Brandt
Astronaut; one of two first men on the Moon
Buzz Aldrin
Military, Dictator of Chile (1973-1990)
Augusto Pinochet
Drug lord, criminal, head of the Medellin cocain cartel
Pablo Escobar
President of Russian SFSR (1990-1991)
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet dissident; invented the hydrogen bomb
Andrei Sakharov
First President of Kenya (1964-1978)
Jomo Kenyatta
First Secretary of GDR (1971-1989)
Erich Honecker
President of Ghana (1960-1966)
Kwame Nkrumah
Anti-Apartheid activist; first black president of South Africa (1994-1999)
Nelson Mandela
Dictator of Romania (1965-1989)
Nicolae Ceausescu
Prime Minister of Israel (1974-1977; 1992-1995)
Yitzhak Rabin
President of Indonesia (1967-1998); dictator
Suharto
General Secretary (1985-1989) and President (1989-1991) of USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev
Chancellor of FRG (1949-1963)
Konrad Adenauer
Republican senator, anti-communist, the McCarthyism ideologue
Joseph McCarthy
Prime Minister of the U. K. (1940-1945; 1951-1955)
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister (1950-1956) and President (1956-1982) of Finland; OSCE
Urho Kekkonen
First Lady of the U. S. (1961-1963); Wife of U. S. President and Greek billionaire
Jacqueline Kennedy
First Secretary of GDR (1950-1971)
Walter Ulbricht
Military; co-founder of CIA; Chief of Staff of U. S. Forces in South Korea
John Singlaub
Chairman of Palestinian Liberation Organization (1969-2004)
Yasser Arafat
Soviet Spy, was known "Gordon Lonsdale"
Konon Molody
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1985-1990)
Eduard Shevardnadze
President of the U. S. (1977-1981)
Jimmy Carter
Social activist, dissident, leader of Solidarity movement
Lech Walęsa
Anti-Apartheid activist; archbishop; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Desmond Tutu
Revolutionary, military; communist idol
Che Guevara
Dictator of the Dominican Republic (1930-1961)
Rafael Trujillo
American communist; convicted of spying for USSR
Ethel Rosenberg
General Secretary of USSR (1983-1984)
Yuri Andropov
Dictator of Hungary (1949-1956)
Mátyás Rákosi
Prime Minister of the U. K (1955-1957)
Anthony Eden
General Secretary of Bulgaria (1954-1991)
Todor Zhivkov
Musician; The Beatles soloist
John Lennon
Minister of Foreign affairs of Ireland (1949-1951); Nobel laureate, member of Amnesty International
Sean McBride
General Secretary of USSR (1953-1964)
Nikita Khrushchev
Dissident, writer of 'GULAG Archipelago'
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Schoolgirl, goodwill ambassador, visited USSR and met General Secretary
Samantha Smith
Queen of the U. K. (1952-2022)
Elizabeth II
Astronaut; one of two first men on the Moon
Neil Armstrong
American pilot; CIA spy who was shot down by USSR
Francis Powers
Soviet politician; Head of the Soviet atomic program
Lavrentiy Beria
Military; Dictator of South Korea (1962-1979)
Park Chung Hee
American communist; convicted of spying for USSR
Julius Rosenberg
Physicist, emigrant; created the theory of relativity, warned against the nuclear war
Albert Einstein
President of the U. S. (1969-1974)
Richard Nixon
"Virtuous" nun, social and religious figure
Mother Teresa
General Secretary of USSR (1964-1982)
Leonid Brezhnev
Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984); daughter of the first Prime Minister of India
Indira Gandhi
Dictator of China (1928-1975); Leader of Kuomintang Party
Chiang Kai-Shek
Prime Minister of Australia (1983-1991)
Bob Hawke
Royalty, goodwill ambassador, "Queen of Hearts"; ex-wife of Charles III
Princess Diana
Leader of Libya (1967-2011); Military personnel
Muammar Gaddafi
President of Egypt (1970-1981)
Anwar Sadat
Prime Minister of the U. K (1957-1963
Harold Macmillan
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary (1989-1990); Raised the Iron Curtain
Gyula Horn
President of Angola (1975-1979); fighter for independence of Angola
Agostinho Neto
President of GDR (1949-1960)
Wilhelm Pieck
Social activist, fighter for rights; she refused to give up the seat in the bus
Rosa Parks
First Prime Minister of Congo (1960)
Patrice Lumumba
Prime Minister of France (1947-1948), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1948-1952)
Robert Schuman
President of North Vietnam (1945-1973)
Ho Chi Minh
President of the U. S. (1961-1963)
John Kennedy
President of Burkina Faso (1983-1987)
Thomas Sankara
Caudillo of Spain (1936-1975)
Francisco Franco
Prime Minister of the U. K. (1964-1970; 1974-1976)
Harold Wilson
President of the U. S. (1953-1961)
Dwight Eisenhower
King of the U. K. (1936-1952)
George VI
President of Indonesia (1945-1966); Leader of Indonesian Independence Movement
Sukarno
Dictator of Iraq (1979-2003); untied the Iran-Iraq War and Gulf War
Saddam Hussein
Chancellor of FRG (1982-1998)
Helmut Kohl
General Secretary of China (1949-1979)
Mao Zedong
Dictator of Cuba (1940-1944; 1952-1959)
Fulgensio Batista
General Secretary of USSR (1924-1953)
Joseph Stalin
Prime Minister of Portugal (1932-1968)
Antonio Salazar
President of Argentina (1946-1955; 1973-1974)
Juan Peron
Only Prime Minister-woman of Israel (1960-1974)
Golda Meir
Prime Minister of Dominica; "Iron Lady of the Caribbean"
Eugenia Charles
Prime Minister of Singapore (1959-1990)
Lee Kuan Yew
Christian leader, evangelist; Southern Baptist Minister
Billy Graham
Leader of Independence movement of India, supporter of nonviolent resistance
Mahatma Gandhi
Prime Minister of the U. K (1979-1990)
Margaret Thatcher
Leader of the Islamic Revolution; Ayatollah of Iran (1979-1989)
Ruhollah Khomeini
Cosmonaut; First man in space
Yuri Gagarin
Dictator of Panama (1983-1989)
Manuel Noriega
Dictator of Cuba (1959-2008); Revolutionary
Fidel Castro
President of the U. S. (1945-1953)
Harry Truman
Military; President of France (1959-1969)
Charles de Gaulle
First President of South Korea (1948-1960)
Syngman Rhee
Prime Minister of Kampuchea (1976-1979); perpetrator of genocide in Kampuchea
Pol Pot
President of France (1981-1995)
François Mitterrand
Shah of Iran (1941-1979)
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
President of the U. S. (1989-1993)
George H. W. Bush
President of Czechoslovakia (1975-1989)
Gustáv Husák
Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957-1985)
Andrei Gromyko
President of Afghanistan (1987-1992)
Mohammad Najibullah
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Level 77
Oct 5, 2023
Two spelling errors: Nehru and Aldrin.
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Level 63
Oct 5, 2023
Thanks for correct
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Level 45
Apr 28, 2024
It's a fantastic quiz (especially the flags!) covering so many countries, but there are a BUNCH of missed type-ins &/or spelling errors. Understandable given that your profile leads me to believe that you're Russian and trying to learn Cyrillic myself, I know some things don't translate 100% right between languages.

Lindon Johnson should be Lyndon [Baines] Johnson - commonly abbreviated as LBJ

You should consider also accepting JFK for John Kennedy, he's always called that, like how Franklin Delano Roosevelt --> FDR

Fuljensio Batista is known as Fulgencio Batista

Patris Lumumba is known as Patrice Batista

Francis Powers is also known by his middle name, Gary Powers, either should work

Invited the hydrogen bomb should be invented

Physician should be physicist, a physician is a doctor

One question just has Prime Minister of the U. K ( with no dates mentioned

It should be Ruhollah Khomeini, not Rukhollah

Also a myriad of little accents for names, like the á in Vaclav Havel

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Level 63
Apr 28, 2024
Thank you very much for such valuable comments! Be sure to tell me if you find any more similar mistakes, I will fix them. Yes, you're right, I'm Russian with very poor English (I'm writing this comment with a translator), so these kinds of mistakes are very common, and I'm always glad when they are corrected by users
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Level 45
Apr 28, 2024
Why is "virtuous" under the Mother Teresa quote in quotation marks?
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Level 63
Apr 28, 2024
Her figure is very controversial, someone considers her a saint, someone a charlatan, so I decided to put this adjective in quotation marks