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| nations stronger than other powerful nations |
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| missiles that could shoot down other missiles form hostile countries |
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| 1980's US President who launched a program to build a "Star Wars" missile defense against nuclear attack |
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| period of relaxation of tensions due to arms control agreements |
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| in 1950's this guerilla leader led an armed rebellion in Cuba called the Cuban Revolution and has been the leader since. |
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| In 1961, US President who attempted to bring down the communist regime in Cuba in an invasion known as the Bay of Pigs. |
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| Soviet leader from 1953 to mid 1960's |
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| Soviet leader, Krushchev's successor, from mid 1960's to 1982 |
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| containing communism within its existing boundaries and keeping it from spreading |
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| period of reduced economic activity |
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| the movement to built-up areas outside of central cities |
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| To be fortunate or successful |
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| forced separation by race, sex, religion or ethnicity |
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| unequal treatment or barriers |
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| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
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| an African-American clergyman who advocated social change through non-violent means |
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| German; Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany 1949 – 63, chief mayor of Cologne 1917 – 33 |
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| a country with a market economy but with increased government responsibility for the social and economic needs of its people |
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| an international organization dedicated to establishing free trade among its European member nations |
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| the total value of all goods and services produced in a nation within a particular year |
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| the forced joining together of workers and property into collectives, such as rural collectives that absorb peasants and their land |
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| a Chinese Communist program from 1958 to 1960 to boost farm and industrial output that failed miserably |
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| commonly owned and operated farms or communities |
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| a Chinese Communist program in the late 1960's to purge China of non-revolutionary tendencies that caused economic and social damage |
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| The latitudinal line that approximately forms the boundary between North Korea and South Korea |
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| Longtime "Great Leader" of North Korea |
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| a leader in Korean independence movements. He was elected the first president of the Republic of Korea in 1948. His government was overthrown in 1960. |
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| a defensive line around the city of Pusan, in the southeast corner of Korea, held by South Korean and United Nations forces |
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| A defined area in which the stationing or concentrating of military forces |
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| soldiers in a loosely organized force making surprise raids |
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| Communist leader of North Vietnam, 1945-69 . "Uncle Ho," the symbol of the communists' willingness to sacrifice and to endure a war of attrition |
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| N. Vietnam town and former French army base, site of battle that secured North Vietnam's independence |
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| the belief that a communist victory in South Vietnam would cause noncommunist governments across Southeast Asia to fail to communism, like a row of communism, like row of dominoes |
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| A Vietnamese belonging to or supporting the National Liberation Front of the nation formerly named South Vietnam |
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| a massive and bloody offensive by communist guerrillas against South Vietnamese and American forces on Tet |
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| a political movement and a force of Cambodian communist guerillas that gained power in Cambodia in 1975 |
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| Ruthless Cambodian communist leader |
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| something that encourages a person to take action or work harder |
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| Muslim religious warriors |
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| Soviet statesman, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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| "restructuring" in Russian; Soviet policy of democratic and free market reforms |
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| Trade union activist who became president of Poland |
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| Polish labor union and democracy movement |
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| First president of the Czech Republic |
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| Romanian leader whose attempts to fuse nationalism and communism resulted in such a brutal dictatorship that the Romanians overthrew his regime. |
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