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| Communism | economic theory practiced by the USSR during the Cold War. It relies on a government controlled economy |
| Capitalism | Economic theory practiced by the USA during the cold war. It relies on private enterprise. |
| Yalta conference | Meeting of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin to discuss post war Europe. It displayed differences in plans/ideas of the USSR and the West |
| Truman Doctrine | official statement f the policy of containment |
| Deterrence | showing strength to deter or prevent an enemy from atacking |
| H-Bomb | new more powerful nuclear weapon developed by both the US and USSR |
| Iron Curtain | term coined by Churchill for the communist countries in E. Europe indirectly controlled by the USSR |
| NATO | Allies of the USA in the cold war. Mainly included W. Europe and Canada |
| Warsaw Pact | allies of the USSR in the cold war. Mainly included Iron Curtain countries |
| Chiang Kai Shek | Leader of the Nationalists in China |
| Koumintang | Nationalist ruling party in China. |
| Mao Zedong | leader of the communists in China, ist leader of the People's Republic of China |
| Taiwan | Island off of the coast of China that the nationalists fled to after the Chinese Civil War |
| Chinese Civil War | 1946-1949 conflict between communists and nationalists for control of China. The communists controlled the mainland while the Nationalists controlled Taiwan. |
| Indochina | French colony in SE Asia containing Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader in Vietnam, led Vietnam to independence from France. |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of USSR after Stalin. He "de-Stalinized" Russia and was leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| John F. Kennedy | US president during Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Fidel Castro | Communist dictator of Cuba |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | conflict between the USA and USSR over soviet missiles placed in Cuba |
| Korean War | Cold War conflict between communist N. Korea and non-commmunist S. Korea |
| DMZ | border that divides N. Korea and S. Korea today |
| Vietnam War | conflict between communist N. Vietnam and non communist US supported S. Vietnam. |
| Viet Cong | the communists in S. Vietnam that resisted the government and US forces |
| Berlin Airlift | US decision to airlift supplies to Soviet blockaded W. Berlin |
| Berlin Wall | Barrier built by the communists that prevented communist E. Berliners from entering capitalist W. Berlin. |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | leader of Communist USSR from 1985-1991. He tried to reform the communist system and ended up bringing it down. |
| Boris Yeltsin | Firt democratically elected President of Russia, following the collapse of the USSR |
