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| Term used for the world's strongest nations - the U.S. and Soviet Union - during the Cold War | superpower |
| A term used for the battle of words and ideas that developed between the democratic nations of the West and the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1990. | Cold War |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance formed in 1949 by nations in Western Europe and North America | NATO |
| A war fought between communist North Korea, (aided by China) and South Korea (aided by United Nation members) from 1950-1953 | Korean War |
| The economic system of private ownership of land and businesses that allows people to make their own economic decisions and profit from their own work. | free enterprise |
| An organization founded in 1945 whose members include most of the world's nations. It works to preserve world peace, settle disputes, and aid international cooperation. | United Nations |
| A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European nations. | Warsaw Pact |
| The Cold War competition between superpowers to develop more powerful and greater numbers of nuclear weapons | nuclear arms race |
| Cuban revolutionary leader; premier of Cuba since 1959 | Fidel Castro |
| The 35th President of the U.S. from 1961-1963. He successfully negotiated the removal of Soviet nuclear weapons from Cuba | John F. Kennedy |
| The capital of Germany, divided from 1945-1990 into West Berlin and East Berlin | Berlin |
| Secretary general of the Soviet Communist Party from 1958-1964 | Nikita Khrushchev |
| A resort city in the Ukraine, site of meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin in 1945 | Yalta |
