| A | B |
|---|
| Bay of Pigs | CIA backed Cubans invade Cuba |
| U-2 Incident | Russian's shoot down US spy plane |
| Nuremburg Trials | Nazi's put on trial |
| Cold War | political and economic war between US and USSR |
| Yom Kippur War | 1973 |
| War of Independence | 1948 |
| 6 Day War | 1967 |
| JFK Assassinated | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Tet Offensive | Turning point of the Vietnam War |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | Nuclear missles place on Cuba |
| Dien Bien Phu | French defeated-leave Vietnam |
| Mao Zedong | Chinese communist leader |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Chinese nationalist leader |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of the Vietnamese communists |
| 38th Parallel | Divides Korea |
| 17th Parallel | Divided Vietnam |
| Colin Powell | Chairman, JSC/Secretary of State |
| Dick Cheney | Secretary of Defense/VP |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | UN Commander- Persian Gulf War #1 |
| Gorbachev | Leader of USSR when it collapsed |
| Reagan Docrine | no more containment- put pressure on the communists |
| Truman Doctrine | containment |
| SDI | "star wars" |
| Countries that divided Germany | England, France, US, USSR |
| Desert Shield | shielding of Saudi Arabia |
| Desert Storm | attack to force Iraq out of Kuwait |
| MacArthur | UN Commander- Korea |
| Inchon | Marines landed here and cut Korea in half |
| Chosin Reservoir | Marines fight Chinese and the severe cold |
| NATO | US and its western European allies |
| VC | Charlie |
| Huey | Common helicopter used in Vietnam |
| Iron Curtain | countries of Eastern Europe dominated by the communists |
| LZ | Landing Zone |
| Marshall Plan | Economic aid to Europe |
