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| 394147032 | United Nations | International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations. | |
| 394147033 | Iron Curtain | a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region | |
| 394147034 | Cold War | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted eachother on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. | |
| 394147035 | 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 | |
| 394147036 | 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. | |
| 394147037 | ICBM's | a international ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another | |
| 394147038 | Fallout | the radiation left over after a blast. Shelters were built to protect the occupants from the radioactive debris. | |
| 394147039 | Brinkmanship | the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | |
| 394147040 | John F. Kennedy | president during part of the cold war and especially during the superpower rivalry and the cuban missile crisis. he was the president who went on tv and told the public about hte crisis and allowed the leader of the soviet uinon to withdraw their missiles. other events, which were during his terms was the building of the berlin wall, the space race, and early events of the Vietnamese war. | |
| 394147041 | Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet statesman and premier who denounced stalin (1894-1971) De-Stalinized | |
| 394147042 | Baby boom | the rapid population increase that took place bewteen 1945 and 1960 | |
| 394147043 | Martin Luther King,Jr. | U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964) | |
| 394147044 | Mohandas Ghandi | 1869-1948. Major spiritual and political leader of India and the Indian Peace Movement. Known as "Father of The Nation" in India for his defiance of British government and success in civil rights movement. Lead famous Dandi Salt March in opposition of British Salt Tax. |
