| A | B |
| Peter Fraser | NZ Prime Minister from 1940-49 who was a strong supporter of the UN |
| Sidney Holland | NZ Prime Minister from 1949-1957 who secured the signing of ANZUS in 1951 |
| Keith Holyoake | Prime Minister from 1960-1972 who sent NZ troops to Vietnam in the 1960s |
| Norman Kirk | Prime Minister from 1972-74 who sent 2 frigates to Moruroa to protest at French nuclear testing |
| Robert Muldoon | NZ Prime Minister from 1975-1984 who allowed the Springbok Tour to go ahead in 1981 |
| David Lange | NZ Prime Minister from 1984-1989 who denied US nuclear warships access to New Zealand |
| Lyndon B Johnson | US President who placed pressure on NZ government to send troops to Vietnam during the 1960s |
| Ronald Reagan | US President during the ANZUS crisis who resisted NZ efforts to change the US 'neither confirm nor deny' policy |
| Bob Hawke | Australian Prime Minister during the ANZUS crisis who supported the US against NZ |
| George Schultz | US Secretary of State who placed pressure on NZ to drop its anti-nuclear ships policy |
| Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese leader of the Viet Minh/Viet Cong Vietnamese communist movement |
| President Sukarno | Leader of Indonesia during the Confrontation period |
| Mao Zedong | Leader of Communist China after 1949 |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the Soviet Union (USSR) |
| John Foster Dulles | US Secretary of State in the 1950s who put into action the containment theory in Asia leading to SEATO |