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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nhu Madame | Trần Lệ Xuân, more popularly known in English as Madame Nhu, was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. She was the wife of Ngô Đình Nhu, who was the brother and chief advisor to President Ngô Đình Diệm. |
| Georgi Malenkov | Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician who briefly led the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. |
| Mao Zedong | Mao Zedong was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 and led the country from its establishment until his death in 1976. |
| Margaret Thatcher | Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. |
| George Marshall | George Catlett Marshall Jr. was an American army officer and statesman. He rose through the United States Army to become Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army under presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. |
| Jan Masaryk | Jan Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech diplomat and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948. American journalist John Gunther described Masaryk as "a brave, honest, turbulent, and impulsive man". |
| Suzanne Massie | Suzanne Liselotte Marguerite Massie was an American scholar of Russian history who played an important role in the relations between Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union in the final years of the Cold War. In 2021 she was awarded Russian citizenship. |
| Robert McNamara | Robert Strange McNamara was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. |
| Erich Mielke | Erich Mielke was a prominent East German communist official who served as the head of the Stasi (the Ministry for State Security) from 1957 until shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. |
| Golda Mier | Golda Meir was the prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and, to date, only female head of government. Born into a Jewish family in Kiev, Russian Empire, Meir immigrated with her family to the United States in 1906. |
| Vyacheslav Molotov | Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary who was a leading figure in the government of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s, as one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies. |
| Mohammad Mosaddegh | Mohammad Mosaddegh was an Iranian politician, author, and lawyer who served as the 30th Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. |
| Imre Namy | Imre Nagy was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet-backed government. |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. |
| Agostinho Neto | António Agostinho Neto was an Angolan politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, having led the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the war for independence. |