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| 13245731935 | Ngo Dinh Diem | Undemocratic and unpopular Southern Vietnamese ruler (supported by the United States). | 0 | |
| 13245731936 | Lyndon Johnson | Became the US president after Kennedy's assassination. Reelected in 1964; committed the US more heavily to fighting in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. | 1 | |
| 13245731937 | Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam; led the fight against the French and then the Americans to reunify the country | 2 | |
| 13245731938 | Douglas MacArthur | U.S. general that commanded in WWII; led the United Nations forces in The Korean War | 3 | |
| 13245731939 | Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet leader from 1955-1964, responsible for putting missiles in Cuba. | 4 | |
| 13245731940 | Fidel Castro | Communist dictator of Cuba who came to power in 1959. | 5 | |
| 13245731941 | John F. Kennedy | 35th President of the United States. Was in office during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall. | 6 | |
| 13245731942 | Ronald Reagan | U.S. President (1981-1989) created a further tension between The United States and The Soviet Union. Sent military aid, including weapons, to support the Afghans, who were at the time rebelling against Soviet power. | 7 | |
| 13245731943 | Mikhail Gorbachev | A progressive Soviet leader that came into power in 1985; attempted to restructure the Soviet economy to allow free enterprise, open up the Soviet Union, and open political process by granting greater freedom. | 8 | |
| 13245731944 | United Nations (UN) | An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. | 9 | |
| 13245731945 | General Assembly | Legislative body/deliberative body of UN; In which each UN member nation has one vote, discusses and votes on issues. | 10 | |
| 13245731946 | Security Council | Acts on UN member nation's issues; could possibly use military force a troublemaking country. | 11 | |
| 13245731947 | International Court of Justice | A judicial body set up by the original UN charter; settles disputes over international law brought to it by countries. | 12 | |
| 13245731948 | Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) | Created by east Europe to promote coordination in economic planning, trade, research, and development. Included the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Rumania. | 13 | |
| 13245731949 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | A military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries including the United States that support each other if attacked. | 14 | |
| 13245731950 | Warsaw Pact | A Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union; included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. | 15 | |
| 13245731951 | Communist bloc | The Eastern Bloc was the group of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact. | 16 | |
| 13245731952 | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) | (September of 1954) The purpose of the organization was to prevent communism from gaining ground in the region; Included the United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Pakistan. | 17 | |
| 13245731953 | Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) | An anti-Soviet treaty organization formed by Great Britain, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Turkey to prevent the spread of Communism in the Middle East. | 18 | |
| 13245731954 | European Union (EU) | Formed in 1993; Ended internal tariffs and migration restrictions, set up a parliament that could pass laws on a variety issues. Included Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. | 19 | |
| 13245731955 | Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty | An agreement that outlawed the testing of nuclear weapons above ground, underwater, and in space. (Signed in 1993 by the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and more than 100 other nations). | 20 | |
| 13245731956 | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | Signed in 1968; called on nuclear powers to prevent the spread of military nuclear technology or materials to non-nuclear countries. | 21 | |
| 13245731957 | Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) | A pact that was designed to freeze the numbers of long-range nuclear missiles for five years in 1972. This treaty between Nixon (U.S.), China, and the Soviet Union served to slow the arms race that had been going on between these nations since World War II. | 22 | |
| 13245731958 | INF Treaty | Agreed on in 1987; Decreased the level of nuclear threat allowed on Gorbachev to implement economic reforms on the Soviet Union. | 23 | |
| 13245731959 | Cold War | A state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. | 24 | |
| 13245731960 | Angola | Republic in Southwest Africa. | 25 | |
| 13245731961 | peacekeeping | The maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area; The UN was well known for this. | 26 | |
| 13245731962 | satellites | small states that are economically or politically dependent on a larger more political state. | 27 | |
| 13245731963 | containment | Holding communism where it was and not letting it spread farther. | 28 | |
| 13245731964 | Truman Doctrine | A U.S. policy, announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents. | 29 | |
| 13245731965 | Marshall Plan | The program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II. | 30 | |
| 13245731966 | Berlin Airlift | A 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948. | 31 | |
| 13245731967 | West Germany | Federal Republic of Germany, controlled by the US, Britain, and France. | 32 | |
| 13245731968 | East Germany | German Democratic Republic, controlled by the Soviet Union. | 33 | |
| 13245731969 | Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) | The idea that the superpowers had so many nuclear weapons that they would completely destroy each other in a war. | 34 | |
| 13245731970 | Tiananmen Square | City square in the centre of Beijing, China | 35 | |
| 13245731971 | Korean War | A conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950-1953, in which the United States along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans while China fought on the side of the North Koreans. | 36 | |
| 13245731972 | Vietnam War | (1955-1975) A long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. | 37 | |
| 13245731973 | Viet Cong | South Vietnamese who supported the Communists. | 38 | |
| 13245731974 | Tet Offensive | A 1968 attack by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. | 39 | |
| 13245731975 | Irish Republican Army (IRA) | Where the Catholics fought. Some members took their campaign to England itself by engaging in acts of terrorism. | 40 | |
| 13245731976 | Terrorism | Using violence to achieve political ends. | 41 | |
| 13245731977 | Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA) | Wanted the independence of the Basque region from Spain. | 42 | |
| 13245731978 | Kent State University | Where an antiwar demonstration was held. Here the Ohio National Guard killed four unarmed students. | 43 | |
| 13245731979 | Berlin Wall | Strong permanent wall placed around Berlin. | 44 | |
| 13245731980 | Bay of Pigs | in April 1961, an American trained force of Cuban freedom fighters invaded Cuba at this event. | 45 | |
| 13245731981 | Cuban Missile Crisis | America was afraid that the Soviet Union was going to bomb the US. | 46 | |
| 13245731982 | Détente | A relaxation of strained relations between nations. | 47 | |
| 13245731983 | "Star Wars" | The "Strategic Defense Initiative", the system would supposedly destroy any Soviet nuclear missiles that targeted the United States or its allies. | 48 | |
| 13245731984 | Glasnost | The policy of opening up Soviet society and the political process by granting greater freedom. | 49 | |
| 13245731985 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Where the UN formalized its position on human rights in 1948. | 50 | |
| 13245731986 | Iron Curtain | Describes the split between Eastern and Western Europe. | 51 | |
| 13245731987 | Cultural Revolution | A way to lead Chinese society to a Communist future. | 52 | |
| 13245731988 | Domino Theory | The belief that if one country in the region fell to the Communists, other countries would soon follow. | 53 | |
| 13245731989 | Refugees | People who have fled their homes. | 54 | |
| 13245731990 | Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) | First tested in 1959; Capable of delivering a nuclear warhead into U.S territory. | 55 | |
| 13245731991 | Sputnik | Soviet Union's first artificial satellite launched into orbit. | 56 | |
| 13245731992 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Agency where the UN provides technical advice and loans to developing nations. | 57 | |
| 13245731993 | World Bank | Another agency where the UN provides technical advice and loans to developing nations. | 58 | |
| 13245731994 | World Trade Organization (WTO) | An international organization and treaty that works to promote free trade worldwide. | 59 | |
| 13245731995 | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) | Works to promote free trade worldwide. | 60 | |
| 13245731996 | Great Leap Forward | In 1966 peasant lands were organized into communes. | 61 | |
| 13245731997 | Communes | Large agricultural communities where land was held by the state rather than by private owners. | 62 | |
| 13245731998 | European Economic Community (EEC)/ Common Market | Allowed for free trade among the members, providing a number of economics benefits. | 63 | |
| 13245731999 | Euro | The common currency the EU instituted in 2002. | 64 | |
| 13245732000 | Perestroika | Attempts to restructure the Soviet economy to allow elements of free enterprise. | 65 |
