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| 6664223053 | United Nations | An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security. | 0 | |
| 6664223054 | Cold War | This period of time following World War II is where the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers and faced off in an arms race that lasted nearly 50 years. | 1 | |
| 6664225800 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights. | 2 | |
| 6664225809 | World bank | A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments. | 3 | |
| 6664228447 | International Monetary Fund | An international organization founded in 1944 to promote market economies and free trade. | 4 | |
| 6664231021 | World Trade Organization | An international organization begun in 1995 to promote and organize world trade. | 5 | |
| 6664231022 | Iron Curtain | A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region. | 6 | |
| 6664232950 | Containment | A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully. | 7 | |
| 6664234612 | Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology. | 8 | |
| 6664235626 | Marshal Plan | A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. | 9 | |
| 6664236634 | Berlin Airlift | Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. | 10 | |
| 6664236635 | Arms Race | The competition between nations to have the larger supply of weapons. | 11 | |
| 6664238820 | Mutual Assured Destruction | 50's & 60's U.S. foreign policy of telling any potential enemies not to attack or we will NUKE you. | 12 | |
| 6664238821 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries. | 13 | |
| 6664239863 | Warsaw Pact | Treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. | 14 | |
| 6664241741 | Mikhail Gorbachev | USSR ruler after 1985; renewed attacks on Stalinism; urged reduction in nuclear armament; proclaimed policies of glasnost and perestroika. | 15 | |
| 6664243971 | Great Leap Forward | Economic policy of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed small-scale industrialization projects integrated into peasant communities; led to economic disaster and ended in 1960. | 16 | |
| 6664245374 | Cultural Revolution | A radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard. | 17 | |
| 6664245387 | Deng Xiaoping | One of the more pragmatic, least ideological of the major Communist leaders of China; joined the party as a young man in the 1920s, survived the legendary Long March and persecution during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and emerged as China's most influential leader in the early 1980s. | 18 | |
| 6664318787 | Tiananmen Square | In 1989, demonstrators peacefully assembled to push for greater democracy in China; when the demonstrators refused to disperse the government sent in troops and tanks. | 19 | |
| 6664318788 | Korean War | A war between North and South Korea to see whether the country would be communist or a democracy. | 20 | |
| 6664321909 | Domino Theory | The Domino theory was a political theory in which believed that if one nation was Communist, neighboring countries would fall under Communist control as well. | 21 | |
| 6664321910 | Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975. | 22 | |
| 6664325352 | Prague Spring | A period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union. | 23 | |
| 6664327332 | European Union | An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members. | 24 | |
| 6664328480 | Irish Republican Army | A militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland. | 25 | |
| 6664329781 | Berlin Wall | Built in 1961 to halt the flow of immigration from East Berlin to West Berlin; immigration was in response to lack of consumer goods and close Soviet control of economy and politics. Wall was torn down at end of Cold War in 1991. | 26 | |
| 6664329782 | Bay of Pigs | An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States. Its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. | 27 | |
| 6664333760 | Cuban Missile Crisis | Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. | 28 | |
| 6664333761 | detente | A releasing of tensions. Used by the Soviet and America to prevent nuclear war. | 29 | |
| 6664335551 | SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Rounds of bilateral talks between the US and the Soviet Union on the issue of armament control. SALT I froze the number of ballistic missile launchers at existing levels. If new ones were required, the nation had to destroy the older ones first. SALT II sought to limit the manufacturing of new weapons. | 30 | |
| 6664345203 | Perestroika/ glasnost | Policy of Mikhail Gorbachev calling for economic restructuring in the USSR in the late 1980s; more leeway for private ownership and decentralized control in industry and agriculture/ Policy of openness or political liberation in Soviet Union put forward by Mikhail Gorbachev in late 1980s | 31 |
