| A | B |
|---|
| Four | Number of Occupation Zones in Germany |
| Fidel Castro | Communist Cuban Dictator |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| Konrad Adenauer | Leader who brought political and economic stability to W. Germany |
| Truman Doctrine | Provide $ to any nation fighting Communism |
| Marshall Plan of 1947 | European Recovery Act- $13 Billion in loans |
| COMECON | USSR response to Marshall Plan |
| Containment Policy | Prevent Soviets from expanding their borders |
| June 1948-May 1949 | Berlin Air Lift |
| 1945-1990 | Cold War |
| 1949 | USSR develops the A-Bomb |
| 1949 | Communists take over China |
| 1950-1953 | Korean War |
| Yalu River | Border between China and N. Korea |
| M.A.D. | Mutually Assured Destruction |
| Warsaw Pact | USSR answer to NATO |
| CENTO | Central Treaty Organization |
| SEATO | SouthEast Asia Treaty Organization |
| Domino Theory | Fit into Containment Policy; countries could fall to communism like dominoes |
| 1959 | Castro takes control of Cuba |
| Batista | American supported Cuban dictator |
| April 1961 | Bay of Pigs Invasion |
| 1960 | U-2 Spy Plane shot down over USSR |
| 1961 | Berlin Wall constructed |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1963 | Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty signed |
| 1964-1975 | Vietnam War |
| 1955 | French defeated & withdraw from Vietnam |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader in Vietnam |
| 1953 | Stalin dies |
| De-Stalinization | Condemnation of Stalin and removal of his practices |
| Nikkita Khrushchev | Soviet leader after Stalin |
| Consumer Goods and Light Industry | Khrushchev's economic plan |
| Rapid Modernization/Industrialization | Stalin's economic plan |
| Charles de Gaulle | Post war leader in France |
| Detente | Reduction of Cold War tensions |
| Helsinki Agreements | Acception of Soviet shperes of influence |
| Brezhnev Doctrine | USSR would interviene if Communism was threatened in another Communist state |
| Perestroika | Restructring (Political & Economic) |
| Glastnost | Openness |
| December 31, 1991 | Collapse of the Soviet Union |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Passed reforms that would lead the USSR to collapse |
| Boris Yeltsin | President of Russia from 1991-1999 |
| E.E.C. | European Economic Community |
| E.U. | European Union |
| Margaret Thatcher | Anti-Communist Prime Minister of England |
| Iron Lady | Nickname for Thatcher |
| Major Cold War nations | US & USSR |
| Taiwan | Defeated Chinese Nationalists fled here |
| Marshall Tito | Communist leader of Yugoslavia |
| 1975 | Helsinki Agreements signed |
| OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| 1967 | Arab-Israili Conflict |
| 1948 | Israel is created |
| Francis Gary Powers | Downed U-2 pilot |
| 1985 | Gorbachev comes to power |
| Ronald Regan | American President during the 1980's |
| Star Wars | Space based missile defense system |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Soviet premier who started detente with the US |
| John F. Kennedy | US president during Bay of Pigs & Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Kiloton | Equals one-thousand tons of TNT/Dynamite |
| Megaton | Equals one-million tons of TNT/Dynamite |
| Labour Party | Brought the welfare state to Britain |
| Welfare State | Govt. assumes the responsibility of providing for its citizens |
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitations Talks/Treaties |
