| A | B |
|---|
| Hot Spot | an area with a lot of tension; fighting can break out at any time |
| Iron Curtain | an invisible political line dividing Europe |
| De-Stalinization | to reduce the use of terror and release millions of political prisoners |
| Space Race | competition between the 2 superpowers to conquer outer space |
| Nuclear Annihilation | to completely destroy something using nuclear weapons |
| Great Leap Forward | 5-Year economic plan in China |
| Commune | large groups living together and sharing property/responsibility; China got rid of individual farms and created communes of up to 30,000 |
| Cultural Revolution | an effort to rid China of the old ways; to stop communist opposition |
| Red Guard | Chinese revolutionary groups |
| Four Modernizations | New policies in (1) industry (2) culture (3) science & technology (4) defense |
| Domino Theory | if one country fell to communism, belief others would fall like dominos |
| Geneva Accords | an agreement dividing Vietnam at the 17th parallel into Communist and Non-Communist sides |
| Blockade | to close off; Soviets created a blockade to stop the allied countries from entering Berlin |
