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Foreign Policy People WWII to Present

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Truman's Secretary of State who proposed massive economic aid to the nations of Europe to recover from WWII George Marshall
Filipino leader ousted after a fraudulent election and the Reagan administration withdrew its support Ferdinand Marcos
Libyan dictator who sponsored terrorism against Americans; Reagan responded by bombing Libyan sites in 1986 Muammar Qaddafi
American charge d'affairs in Moscow who advised a policy of restricting Soviet Expansion George F. Kennan
Leader of Chinese Communists Mao Tse-tung
Leader of the Nationalists in China who led to Formosa after losing the Chinese Civil War Chiang Kai-shek
Nixon's Secretary of State who used "shuttle diplomacy" to mediate between Israel and Arab nations to end the Yom Kippur War Henry Kissinger
Communist leader of the North Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh
Accused the State Department and the Army of harboring communists; later censored by the senate Joseph McCarthy
Leader of Iranian revolution Ayatollah Khomeini
State Department official convicted of perjury for denying that he had been a member of the Communist party in the 1930s Alger Hiss
Found guilty of spying for the Soviets; electrocuted in 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Secretary of State under Eisenhower who supported the principles of massive retaliation, brinksmanship, and preemptive strike John Foster Dulles
President who initiated a transfer the Panama Canal and the Canal Zone to the Panamanians Jimmy Carter
Panamanian dictator ousted by the US under the first President Bush Manuel Noriega
Israeli prime minister assassinated in 1995 Yitzak Rabin
Soviet leader led a policy of perestroika or restructuring and called for openness in government, glasnost Mikhail Gorbachev
General who wanted to invade China during the Korean War Douglas MacArthur
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