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| 395334399 | Partition of Germany | after German lost WWII, to prevent a repeat of what happened with the Treaty of Versailles, Allies split up Germany under different controls | 0 | |
| 395334400 | United Nations | international organization of the worlds' countries trying to achieve world peace | 1 | |
| 395334401 | Berlin Blockade | one of the first major international crises of the Cold War; multinational occupation of Germany post WWII; Soviet Union blocked the Allies' railway, road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin, trying force the western powers to let Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food, fuel, giving the Soviets practical control over city | 2 | |
| 395334402 | Marshall Plan | U.S. help of European countries post WWII to help prevent spread of communism | 3 | |
| 395334403 | Sen. McCarthy | Republican Senator who was censured because of claims of communist spies within U.S. | 4 | |
| 395334404 | George Kennan/containment | "father of containment"; tried to prevent spread of communism | 5 | |
| 395334405 | Mao's Cultural Revolution | in Republic of China; Mao tried to remove capitalism and enforce socialism | 6 | |
| 395334406 | MAD (mutually assured destruction) | 50's & 60's U.S. foreign policy of telling any potential enemies not to attack or we will NUKE you | 7 | |
| 395334407 | Domino Theory | if one of the surrounding areas fell to communism so would all of the other lands near it | 8 | |
| 395334408 | The Suez Crisis | "Tripartite Aggression"; Britain, France, Israel vs. Egypt for control of Egypt | 9 | |
| 395334409 | Perestroika | restructuring of Communist Party of Soviet Union of political and economic systems | 10 | |
| 395334410 | Bay of Pigs | U.S. and Cuban exiles trying to overthrow Fidel Castro and the Cuban government (unsuccessful) | 11 | |
| 395334411 | Nikita Khrushchev | Stalin's successor, wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev, France and Great Britain in Geneva, Switzerland in July, 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved. | 12 | |
| 395334412 | Fall of USSR | end of Cold War; left 15 republics of Soviet Union; end of World's Largest Communist state | 13 | |
| 395334413 | Afghanistan invasion- 1979 | nine-year war Soviet Union supporting Marxist communism in Afghanistan | 14 | |
| 395334414 | Sino-Soviet Split | Maoism vs. Marxism; China vs. Russia; communism | 15 | |
| 395334415 | Cuban Missle Crisis | (1961) Crises that developed as a result of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's decision to allow the Soviet Union to base nuclear missiles in Cuba. Upon discovery, the United States confronted the Soviet Union and demanded the missiles be removed. For nearly two weeks, nuclear war was imminent. Fortunately, diplomacy succeeded and crisis was averted. | 16 | |
| 395334416 | Korean War | Korea vs. U.S. because of political division in Korea | 17 | |
| 395334417 | Brezhnev Doctrine | Soviet Union foreign policy saying that if one country is being denied socialism, it is a concern for all of the socialist countries | 18 | |
| 395334418 | Détente | relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals, the Soviet Union and China | 19 | |
| 395334419 | Gorbachev | head of state of Soviet Union until dissolution; only general secretary in history of Soviet Union under communist rule | 20 | |
| 395334420 | Glasnost | Policy of openness initiated by Gorbachev in the 1980s that provided increased opportunities for freedom of speech, association and the press in the Soviet Union. | 21 | |
| 395334421 | Division of Eastern Europe | diving of Eastern Europe after WWII to prevent incident following the Treaty of Versailles with Germany | 22 | |
| 395334422 | "Iron Curtain" Speech | Winston Churchill--an iron curtain had descended across East and West Europe, separating Western democracies from Eastern, Communist countries | 23 | |
| 395334423 | Truman Doctrine | U.S. economic and military help towards Greece and Turkey to prevent them falling into the "Soviet Sphere" | 24 | |
| 395334424 | NATO vs. Warsaw Pact | North Atlantic Treaty Organization vs. communist states during Cold War | 25 | |
| 395334425 | Sputnik | first artificial satellite to be put into Earths' orbit by the Soviet Union | 26 | |
| 395334426 | Mao's Great Leap Forward | rapid industrialization and collectivization to move China from an agrarian country to a communist one | 27 | |
| 395334427 | Nixon's Trip to China | ended 25 years of separation between Republic of China and U.S. | 28 | |
| 395334428 | The Third World | term given to countries that remained neutral and un-aligned during the Cold War | 29 | |
| 395334429 | Soviet Invasion into Hungary | revolt led by students against Soviet policies in Budapest | 30 | |
| 395334430 | Fidel Castro | led the revolution of Cuba and took control of Cuba in 1959; resented past dictators; made Cuba communist | 31 | |
| 395334431 | Berlin Wall | A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world. | 32 | |
| 395334432 | Marshall Josep Tito | unifying dictator of Yugoslavia | 33 | |
| 395334433 | Prague Spring (invasion of Czech) | political liberalization of Czechoslovakia run by the Soviet Union after WWII | 34 | |
| 395334434 | Vietnam Conflict | fall of Saigon; followed First Indochina War; North Vietnam supported by communist allies vs. government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. and other anti-communist countries | 35 |
