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| 6217174321 | Deng Xiaoping | Chinese leader after Mao who instituted reforms | 0 | |
| 6217174322 | Ngo Dinh Diem | Unpopular dictator of South Vietnam that the US supported as opposed to Communism | 1 | |
| 6217176429 | Lyndon Johnson | President who believed in the domino theory and inccreased troops in Vietnam | 2 | |
| 6217178007 | Ho Chi Minh | North Vietnamese leader who appealed to nationalist feelings to unite Vietnam | 3 | |
| 6217178008 | Alexander Dubcek | Leader of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia who wanted to give more freedom to the people | 4 | |
| 6217180302 | Douglas Mac Arthur | US general who led the UN in the Korean War | 5 | |
| 6217180303 | Wladyslaw Gomulka | Leader of Poland who stayed loyal to the Soviet Union but pursued different policies | 6 | |
| 6217181898 | Imre Nagy | Leader in Hungary who wanted freedom from the Soviet Union | 7 | |
| 6217181899 | Nikita Krushchev | Soviet leader after Stalin | 8 | |
| 6217184109 | Fidel Castro | Communist Cuban leader | 9 | |
| 6217184110 | John F. Kennedy | President who had grave concerns about Cuba | 10 | |
| 6217186493 | Ronald Reagan | Sent supplies to Afghans against Soviets | 11 | |
| 6217186494 | Mikhail Gorbachev | New leader of Soviets who was more progressive Communist | 12 | |
| 6217188019 | United Nations (UN) | Organization that linked the world together to keep peace and solve world problems | 13 | |
| 6217188020 | General Assembly | Consists of one vote for each member nation | 14 | |
| 6217190269 | Security Council | Acts on major issues; 10 members with 5 permanent: US, France, Britain, Soviet Union, and China | 15 | |
| 6217191946 | International Court of Justice | Judicial body set up by the original UN charter | 16 | |
| 6217193846 | Council for Mutual Economic Assistance/ COMECON | Soviet plan to help rebuild Eastern Europe | 17 | |
| 6217195650 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization/ NATO | Pledged mutual support and cooperation between countries in North America and Europe | 18 | |
| 6217195651 | Warsaw Pact/ Communist Bloc | Soviet response to NATO; Communist Eastern Europe and Soviet Union | 19 | |
| 6217199525 | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization/ SEATO | Formed between the US, France, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and other Pacific countries | 20 | |
| 6217201116 | Central Treaty Organization/ CENTO | Anti-Soviet treaty organization formed between Great Britain and Middle East; US helped although not member | 21 | |
| 6217201117 | European Union/ EU | 22 | ||
| 6217202871 | Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | Said that nukes could only be tested underground | 23 | |
| 6217209442 | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | Prevent spread of military nuclear technology to non-nuclear countries | 24 | |
| 6217211448 | Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty/ SALT | Designed to freeze number of missiles each power could keep | 25 | |
| 6217211449 | INF Treaty | Restrictions were placed on intermediate-range nuclear weapons | 26 | |
| 6217211450 | Cold War | Hostility between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. that never resulted in direct fighting but instead used indirect fighting over the spread of Communism | 27 | |
| 6217211543 | Angola | Country in Southwest Africa that had a civil war where the Soviet backed the government and the U.S. backed the rebels | 28 | |
| 6217213108 | Peacekeeping | Easing tensions in trouble spots; the UN is well known for | 29 | |
| 6217213109 | Satellites | Small states that are economically or politically dependent on a larger more powerful state | 30 | |
| 6217213110 | Containment | Holding communism where it was and not letting it spread farther | 31 | |
| 6217214169 | Truman Doctrine | Strong statement that the US would do what it had to do to stop the spread of Communist influence, specifically in Greece and Turkey | 32 | |
| 6217214170 | Marshall Plan | Designed to offer $13B more in aid to all nations of Europe from the US; Soviet Union refused along with satellites | 33 | |
| 6217215665 | Berlin | German capital located within the Soviet Union but split into Eastern and Western | 34 | |
| 6320625745 | Berlin Airlift | After Soviet blockade, US and Britain delivered supplies to Berlin through planes | 35 | |
| 6217215666 | West/East Germany | Split of Germany between Democracy and Communist | 36 | |
| 6217218471 | Mutual Assured Destruction/ MAD | Regardless of who started the war, both would be obliterated by the end of it | 37 | |
| 6217220254 | Non-Aligned Movement | Developing countries that wished to avoid involvement in the Cold War banded together | 38 | |
| 6217220255 | Red Guards | Groups of revolutionary students | 39 | |
| 6217221421 | Tiananmen Square | Peaceful student-led demonstration where soldiers responded by killing hundreds | 40 | |
| 6217221422 | Korean War | War between the North and South that ended in a stalemate | 41 | |
| 6217221423 | Vietnam War | War between the North and South which the North won and led to Communism | 42 | |
| 6217221424 | Viet Cong | South Vietnamese who fought guerilla war against US troops | 43 | |
| 6217223505 | Tet Offensive | Attack by North Vietnam that showed that the US was having difficulty winning the war | 44 | |
| 6217223506 | Prague Spring | Czechoslovakia movement to gain freedom; met with four Warsaw powers crushing it | 45 | |
| 6217226493 | Brezhnev Doctrine | Claimed the Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene if an action by one member threatened other socialist countries | 46 | |
| 6217226494 | Irish Republican Army/ IRA | Northern Irish Catholics that fought to unite with Ireland due to descrimination | 47 | |
| 6217229087 | Ulster Defense Association | Northern Irish Catholics fought in to stay with Britain | 48 | |
| 6217229088 | Terrorism | Using violence to achieve political ends | 49 | |
| 6217230715 | Basque Homeland and Freedom/ ETA | Terrorist who wanted freedom from Spain | 50 | |
| 6217230716 | Kent State University | Antiwar demonstration in the US that resulted in four unarmed students killings | 51 | |
| 6217232286 | Berlin Wall | Wall between East and West Berlin | 52 | |
| 6217232287 | Bay of Pigs | Failure to overthrow Castro | 53 | |
| 6217233811 | Cuban Missile Crisis | USSR tried to put missiles in Cuba to aim at US | 54 | |
| 6217233812 | Hot Line | Direct telegraph/teleprinter link between the US and Soviet leaders | 55 | |
| 6217235793 | Détente | Relaxation on strain between nations | 56 | |
| 6217235794 | "Star Wars" | System to destroy any Soviet nuclear missiles that target the US | 57 | |
| 6217236200 | Glasnost | Policy of opening up Soviet society and the political process by granting greater freedom | 58 | |
| 6217236220 | Human Rights | Basic protections common to all people | 59 | |
| 6217238931 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | UN document that formalized its position on human rights | 60 | |
| 6217240160 | Iron Curtain | Metaphor coined by Winston Churchill to describe the split between Eastern and Western Europe | 61 | |
| 6217240161 | Cultural Revolution | War to lead Chinese society to a Communist future | 62 | |
| 6217242192 | Thich Quang Duc | Buddhist monk who protested the government of South Vietnam by lighting himself on fire | 63 | |
| 6217242193 | Domino Theory | Belief that if one country in Asia fell to Communists, other countries would soon follow | 64 | |
| 6217242194 | Refugees | People who have fled their homes | 65 | |
| 6217243729 | Hydrogen Bomb | Bomb developed the was more powerful than the atomic | 66 | |
| 6217245533 | Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles/ ICBM | Capable of delivering nuclear warheads into US territory | 67 | |
| 6217245534 | Sputnik | First artificial satellite launched by Soviet Union | 68 | |
| 6217247437 | Antinuclear Movements | Opposition to nuclear weapons | 69 | |
| 6217248614 | International Monetary Fund/ IMF and World Bank | Agencies the UN works through to provide technical advice and loans to developing nations | 70 | |
| 6217250008 | World Trade Organization/ WTO and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/ GATT | Work to promote free trade worldwide | 71 | |
| 6217251954 | Great Leap Forward | Mao Zedong's policy that organized peasant land into communes; failure and 20 million starved | 72 | |
| 6217251955 | Communes | Large agricultural communities where land was held by the state rahter than by private owneres | 73 | |
| 6217254593 | European Economic Community/ EEC/ Common Market | Allowed for free trade between some European countries; led to the EU | 74 | |
| 6217254594 | Euro | Common currency between members of the EU | 75 | |
| 6217254595 | Perestroika | Attempts to restructure the Soviet economy to allow elements of free enterprise | 76 |
