| A | B |
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| Yalta Conference | meeting between leaders of the Allied Powers during WWII to decide how Europe would be structured after WWII |
| Democracy | Political ideology of the United States in which the government is controlled by the people |
| Communism | Political ideology of the Soviet Union in which the people are controlled by the government |
| Free enterprise/Capitalism | Economic ideology of the US in which people are free to buy and sell goods as they please |
| Containment | President Truman's policy of stopping the spread of communism |
| Iron Curtain | The separation between Communist Eastern Europe and Democratic Western Europe |
| satellite nations | Eastern European nations controlled by the Soviet Union |
| NATO | A military and economic alliance between the democratic Western European nations and the US |
| Warsaw Pact | A military and economic alliance between the communist Eastern European nations and the Soviet Union |
| United Nations | A peacekeeping organization created after WWII--it was stronger than the League of Nations! |
| Korean War | At the end of this war, no territory was gained by either side |
| MacArthur | This general was fired by Truman during the Korean War for wanting to invade China |
| Political Competition | This was the cause of the Cold War as the Capitalist US and Communist SU tried to win influence over other nations |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain and author of the Iron Curtain Speech |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | The closest the 2 superpowers ever came to war |
| John F. Kennedy | President of US during Cuban Missile Crisis who ordered a blockade of Cuba |
| Fidel Castro | Leader of Communist Cuba who accpeted missiles from the Soviet Union |
| Cuba | Country off the coast of the United States where the Sovier Union stockpiled missiles |
| Khruschev | Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of the Communist North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War |
| Vietnam War | The US lost this war, as Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces took over the whole country |
| Berlin Wall | This was built in 1961 to keep people from traveling into West Berlin from East Berlin |
| Fall of the Berlin Wall | This symbolizes the end of the Cold War |
| Gorbachev | Last leader of the Soviet Union who introduced economic and political reforms to Communism |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | Leader of the Nationalists in China, he was defeated and set up a government in Taiwan |
| Mao Zedong | Leader of the Communists during the Chinese Civil War, he set up the People's Republic of China |
