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| 9694872284 | Berlin Airlift | 1948-1949 end of second worl war U.S, british and soviet military forces divided and occupied germany, the dropping of aid to a bockaded east germany, idea was developed by general clay | 0 | |
| 9694872285 | Berlin Wall | Barrier set up in 1961 to separate East and West Berlin, built to stop East Germans, who were unhappy with communism, from fleeing from east Berlin to Wes Berlin | 1 | |
| 9694872286 | Stalin | Leader of Russia during WWII,head of soviet communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. Led Soviet Union with iron fist. | 2 | |
| 9694872287 | Eastern Block Nations | countries on the east side of Europe with close ties to Russia | 3 | |
| 9694872288 | Satellite States | Eastern European states under the control of the Soviet Union during the Cold War | 4 | |
| 9694872289 | Iron Curtain | a "curtain" split between the democratic nations and communist nations, the term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-soviet controlled areas | 5 | |
| 9694872290 | Cuban Missile Crisis | The 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. | 6 | |
| 9694872291 | Bay of Pigs | Failed CIA operation in April 1961to overthrow Castro and take over Cuba using Cuban exiles. | 7 | |
| 9694872292 | Domino Theory | The US theory that stated, if one country would fall to Communism then they all would. | 8 | |
| 9694872293 | Containment | One of the main reasons for the Vietnam war | 9 | |
| 9694872294 | Marshall Plan | A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) | 10 | |
| 9694872295 | Truman Doctrine | 1947 - Stated that the U.S. would support any nation threatened by Communism. | 11 | |
| 9694872296 | McArthur | general of the pacific during WWII, fired by Truman because he wanted to drop atomic bombs. | 12 | |
| 9694872297 | Mao Zedong | Chinese Communist leader from 1949 to 1976. | 13 | |
| 9694872298 | ICBMs (Ballistic Missiles) | weapons that you could type in coordinates and the bombs would hit that location. | 14 | |
| 9694872299 | Star Wars | President Reagan's proposed weapons system to destroy Soviet missiles from space. | 15 | |
| 9694872300 | Tet Offensive (1968) | A massive surprise attack by the vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities. | 16 | |
| 9694872301 | Gulf of Tonkin | 1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam | 17 | |
| 9694872302 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Allowed the president to take all necessary measures to repel armed attacks on US forces, gave all powers to the president. President could send troops without officially declaring war | 18 | |
| 9694872303 | Detente | the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries. | 19 | |
| 9694872304 | Brinkmanship | the willingness to go to the brink of war to force an opponent to back down | 20 | |
| 9694872305 | Space Race | A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union. | 21 | |
| 9694872306 | Sputnik | October, 1957 - The first artificial satellite sent into space, launched by the Soviets. | 22 | |
| 9694872307 | Operation Rolling Thunder | intense bombing campaign against North Vietnam ordered by President Johnson | 23 | |
| 9694872308 | Soviet-Afghan War | A war in the Middle East; the USSR intervened to help the communist government fight rebel groups, Truman doctrine example | 24 | |
| 9694872309 | SALT I Treaty | (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) first arms limitation between the Soviet Union and the US | 25 | |
| 9694872310 | SALT II | Second round of talks between U.S. and Soviet Union on nuclear weapon limitations | 26 | |
| 9694872311 | Reaganomics | Reagan's economic policy; tax cuts, arms build up, budget cuts | 27 | |
| 9694872312 | Vietcong | Communist rebels in South Vietnam who were supported by North Vietnam. | 28 | |
| 9694872313 | Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam | 29 | |
| 9694872314 | Ho Chi Minh Trail | A network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the Vietcong in South Vietnam | 30 | |
| 9694872315 | Brezhnev | "No experimentation.", "re-Stalinization" modest liberalization and more consumer goods | 31 | |
| 9694872316 | Khrushchev | Soviet leader, publicly denounced Stalin, free many political prisoners eased censorship | 32 | |
| 9694872317 | Yeltsin | first freely elected leader of Russia after the fall of communism | 33 | |
| 9694872318 | Warsaw Pact | A military alliance, formed in 1955, of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite nations. | 34 | |
| 9694872319 | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion | 35 | |
| 9694872320 | Imre Nagy | Communist leader who declared Hungary a free nation, soviets crushed this reform movement | 36 | |
| 9694872321 | Solidarity | Support or sympathy; unity | 37 | |
| 9694872322 | Cultural Revolution | a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard | 38 | |
| 9694872323 | The Great Leap Forward | when China wanted to be more economically advanced than other nations | 39 | |
| 9694872324 | Velvet Revolution | A peaceful protest by the Czech people that led to the smooth end of communism in Czechoslovakia. | 40 | |
| 9694872325 | Communes | large collectivized farms, created by Mao | 41 | |
| 9694872326 | Tiananmen Square | Square in the capital of Beijing; scene of a student demonstration and massacre | 42 | |
| 9694872327 | Glasnost | a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems;openness | 43 | |
| 9694872328 | Prague Spring | protest for democratic reforms in Soviet controlled Czechoslovakia in 1968 | 44 | |
| 9694872329 | COMECON | The economic association organized by the communist states | 45 | |
| 9694872330 | War Powers Act | Limits the ability of the president to commit troops to combat. | 46 | |
| 9694872331 | Napalm | Highly flammable chemical dropped from US planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam War. | 47 | |
| 9694872332 | Vietnamization | President Nixon's policy of replacing American military forces with those of South Vietnam, policy of equipping and training of the South Vietnamese to fight for themselves | 48 | |
| 9694872333 | Pentagon Papers | Government documents that showed the public had been lied to about the status of the war in Vietnam | 49 | |
| 9694872334 | Proxy war | A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate | 50 | |
| 9694872335 | Pol Pot | Leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, who terrorized the people of Cambodia throughout the 1970's | 51 | |
| 9694872336 | Pahlavi Dynasty | The father and son who ruled Iran for most of the twentieth century, until the revolution of 1979. | 52 |
