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| Khrushchev | leader of USSR - 1950s & early 1960s - tried put missiles in Cuba |
| kolkhoz | a Russian collective farm |
| Kremlin | an area in Moscow, Russia where government buildings are located - surrounded by a red brick wall |
| laissez-faire economics | capitalism … the government lets business control itself |
| Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Eisenhower Doctrine | the United States gives aid ( $$$ ) to countries so they won't become communist |
| satellite nation | countries in Eastern Europe from 1945 - 1990 .. Communist governments, but had to obey what the Soviet leaders (in Moscow) told them …. Used as a defensive barrier to protect Russia from invasion |
| Soviet Bloc | another term for nations in eastern Europe … after World War II … because they obeyed the Communists in Moscow |
| Soviet Union | a shortened term for the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) |
| Soyuz | name for Soviet Space Station |
| Space Race | part of the Cold War … goal to see who get a man in space first |
| totalitarian … totalitarianism | dictatorship |
| World War I | it "helped" lead to the overthrow of the Romanovs & thus helped start the Russian Revolution |
| World War II | occurs from 1939 - 1945 … one result is that after the war many nations/countries in eastern Europe become Communist |
