A | B |
Berlin Airlift | Allies airlift supplies to West Berlin after it is blockaded by East Germany |
Cuban Missle Crisis | Closest the US and the USSR have come to nuclear war happened in 1962 |
John Kennedy | President who negotiated the peace after the Cuban missle crisis |
Nikita Kruzchev | Russian leader who negotiated the peace |
Fidel Castro | Communist leader of Cuba |
DouglasMacArthur | led US effort in Korean War |
38th parallel | Line of latitude that divides Communist North Korea from the Republic of South Korea |
Bay of Pigs Invasion | Failed US invasion of Cuba |
Death Squad | Private army trained primarily by South American landowners |
Mayan peasants | supported Socialist reformers in Latin America |
wealthy landowners | supported capitalist governments in Latin American |
land reform | primary reason for popularity of Socialism in Latin America |