The Cold War By pluchar2 Period: Nov 8, 1917 to Jan 21, 1924 Vadimir Lenin Mar 19, 1921 Harding Mar 19, 1923 Coolidge Period: Jan 22, 1924 to Mar 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin Mar 19, 1929 Hoover Mar 19, 1933 FDR Mar 19, 1945 Truman Period: Mar 6, 1953 to Feb 8, 1955 Georgy Malankov Mar 19, 1953 Eisenhower Period: Mar 27, 1955 to Oct 14, 1964 Nikita Khrushchev Mar 19, 1961 JFK Mar 19, 1963 Johnson Period: Oct 10, 1964 to Nov 10, 1982 Leonid Brezhnev Mar 19, 1969 Nixon Mar 19, 1974 ford Mar 19, 1977 Carter Mar 19, 1981 Reagan Period: Nov 12, 1982 to Feb 9, 1984 Yuri Nadropov Period: Feb 13, 1984 to Mar 10, 1985 Konstantin Chernenko Period: Mar 11, 1985 to Dec 25, 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev Mar 19, 1989 George H.W. Bush