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| 376138254 | Jacobo Arbenz | President of Guatemala from 1951 - 1954, He nationalized the United Fruit Company which had before been an American corporate state. His nationalization of the company caused the US to send troops to Guatemala in a coup, one of the US' first involvements in what would become the Iran Contra Scandal. | 0 | |
| 376138255 | Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO | 1 | |
| 376138256 | Abdel Nasser | Egyptian colonel who nationalized the Suez Canal but refused to let Israeli ships pass through. He was supported by the Soviet Union | 2 | |
| 376138257 | Suez War | Israel urged on by Great Britain and France, attacked Egypt-but pressure from the UN and world made Israel give back what it had captured from Egypt. | 3 | |
| 376138258 | Nikita Kruschev | Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death | 4 | |
| 376138259 | Sputnik | The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US. | 5 | |
| 376138260 | Reza Shah Pahlavi | Leader of Persia who sought to modernize the country by making public schools, building roads and railroads, extending women's rights, and promoting industrial growth. He held all of the power of the country that he later called Iran in 1935. He would become corrupted and murderous of his enemies, and would support Hitler as his support dwindled | 6 | |
| 376138261 | Mohammed Mossadegh | Prime Minister of Iran who nationalized oil fields and refineries which threatened Western oil interests; challenged the authority of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi who favored foreign oil interests; the US didn't like this so they staged a coup against him and gave the Shah all the power again | 7 | |
| 376138262 | John. F. Kennedy | President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis | 8 | |
| 376138263 | Berlin Wall | In 1961, the Soviet Union built a high barrier to seal off their sector of Berlin in order to stop the flow of refugees out of the Soviet zone of Germany. The wall was torn down in 1989, the end of the Cold War. | 9 | |
| 376138264 | Operation Mongoose | US effort to destroy Castro from within Cuba and through military invasion; restricted after Missile Crisis | 10 | |
| 376138265 | New Look Policy | Eisenhower cut back on army and navy, relied on air force, and implemented massive retaliation, stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb as a deterrent | 11 | |
| 376138266 | U-2 Incident | In which the Russians shot down a high altitude US spy plane over the Soviet Union; this incident exposed a secret US tactic for gaining information. | 12 | |
| 376138267 | Hungarian Uprising | Popular revolt against the Soviet-controlled government of Hungary, leading to a USSR invasion and reimposition of communist authority. | 13 | |
| 376138268 | Eisenhower Doctrine | policy of President Eisenhower that stated that the United States would use force to help any nation threatened by communism. Used in the Middle East | 14 |
