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| an international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world |
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| during the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe |
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| a U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances |
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| announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents |
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| a U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II |
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| the state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II |
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| the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada |
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| a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries |
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a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression
a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries |
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| May 1, 1960; an American U-2 spy plane was shot down in the Soviet Union; U.S. originally denied the claims that it was their plane until the Soviet Union said they had the remains of the plane as well as the living pilot |
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| in February 1945, the leaders of the United States (FDR), Britain (Churchill), and the Soviet Union (Stalin) met at the Soviet Black Sea resort of Yalta; they agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation controlled by the Allied military forces; Germany also would have to pay the Soviet Union to compensate for its loss of life and property |
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| a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the first country to enter space; Soviet sent the first satellite into space (Sputnik I) in October 1957; U.S. had the first person land on the moon on July 21, 1969 |
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| bomb that splits a hydrogen atom causing a large explosion |
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| leader of Communist China from 1949 to 1976 |
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| defeated the last emperor of China; first leader of the Republic of China |
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| in Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together |
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| militia units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong's call for a social and cultural revolution |
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| a 1966-1976 uprising in China led by the Red Guards, with the main point to get rid of the intellectual side of China and promote Mao |
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| an economic and social plan used from 1958 to 1961 which ostensibly aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform China from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of agriculuralization, industrialization, and collectivization |
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| north of the 38th parallel, a line that crosses Korea at 38 degrees north latitude, Japanese troops surrendered to Soviet forces |
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| American general, and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army; also was a Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army during the 1930s |
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| a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and statesman who was prime minister (1946-1955) and president (1945-1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North) |
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| first president of South Vietnam (1955-1963) |
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| a group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam war |
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| President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces |
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| a group of Communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975 |
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| country that borders southeast Asia and Thailand |
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| during the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the United States or the Soviet Union |
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| the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union |
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| a communist Cuban politician, one of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until his resignation from the Office in February 2008 |
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| the U.S. has funded the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza and his family since 1933; in 1979, Commuist Sandinista rebels toppled Somoza's son |
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| "El Che"; an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat, military theorist, and major figure of the Cuban Revolution |
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| both the U.S. and the Soviet Union initially gave aid to the Sandinistas and their leader, Daniel Ortega |
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| Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi |
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| the emperor of Iran from September 16, 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on February 11, 1979; he was the second and last monarch of the House of Pahlavi of the Iranian monarchy |
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| Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini |
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| an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran; following the revolution and a national referendum, he became the country's Supreme Leader until his death |
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| a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in October 1962; in Sept. 1962, the Cuban and Soviet governments placed nuclear missiles in Cuba; when U.S. military intelligence discovered the weapons, the U.S. government did all it could to ensure the removal of the missiles |
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| an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones on the southern coast of Cuba |
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| gave assistance to other Marxist rebels in nearby El Salvador; they were defeated in elections in 1996 and 2001 |
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| led the Soviet Union during the Cold War; he served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964 |
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| the process of eliminating the cult of personality and Stalinist political system created by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin |
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| the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964-1982) and presided over the Soviet Union more than any man except Stalin; responsible of increasing the Soviet Union's global influence and for equalizing the military strength of the Soviet Union and the U.S. |
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| 35th president of the U.S. (1961-1963); assassinated in 1963 |
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| 36th president of the U.S. (1963-1969) |
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| a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon |
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| 37th president of the U.S. (1969-1974) |
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| the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks-a series of meetings in the 1970s, in which leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to limit their nations' stocks of nuclear weapons |
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| 40th president of the U.S. (1981-1989); helped to tear down the Berlin Wall |
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| a campaign started by Ronald Reagan that would put satellites into space that had lasers attached to them in which they could shot people from space |
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| Hungarian politician, appointed Prime Minister of Hungary on two occasions |
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| Slovak politician and briefly leader of Czechoslovakia; famous for his attempt to reform the Communist regime |
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