| A | B |
|---|
| Cold War | Tension and hostilities between US and USSR |
| Superpower | countries whose military power is combined with political influence |
| Policy of Containment | stop the spread of communism |
| Domino Theory | If one country became communist then surrounding countries would follow |
| Korean War | N. Korea v. US & S. Korea. Ends as a tie. |
| Vietnam War | US loses and Vietnam turns completely communist |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader in China |
| The Great Leap Forward | reforms by Mao that were a complete failure |
| John F. Kennedy | President of the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Fidel Castro | Communist dictator in Cuba |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Communist leader of USSR after Stalin |
| Lech Walesa | led Poland to freedom |
| Solidarity | Labor union in Poland |
| Michael Gorbachev | leader of USSR at the end of the Cold War |
| Glasnost | "openness" |
| Perestroika | "restructuring" |
| Boris Yeltsin | Becomes leader of Russia after Gorbachev |
| NATO | military alliance of democratic countries |
| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of communist countries |
| Chechnya | region fighting Russia for independence |
| Taiwan | island off of China where Nationalists fled; democracy |
