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| large organization created to maintain world peace and security |
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| the 15 member countries of the United Nations that makes major resolutions |
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| the large body of the United Nations that consits of all the member countries |
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| Soviet leader who succeeded Khrushchev and tried to ensure communist nations adhered to Soviet ideology |
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| 1968 Czechoslovakian period of political and social freedoms that led to a brutal Soviet invasion |
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| leader of the Polish workers in 1980 who organized mass strikes in the struggle to form labour unions |
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| working class labour movement that gained national support in Poland |
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| a thawing of Cold War tensions |
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| tensions between two superpowers that led to stronger US relations with China and Nixon's visit to China |
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| detente between East and West Germany |
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| pact between the US and Soviet Union to reduce their supplies of nuclear weapons |
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| term given to China's invitation for the American table tennis team to vist for a competition |
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| an agreement signed by 35 countries to guarantee borders of European countries and to strengthen human rights |
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| Afghan independence fighters who opposed the Soviets |
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| country invaded by the Soviet Union |
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| banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, space and underwater |
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| the idea that devastation caused by nuclear war leaves no victors (mutually assured destruction) |
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| Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
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| prevented nuclear powers from giving non-nuclear powers technology to build bombs |
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| controversial American missile defense program |
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| inspirational South African civil rights leader |
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