| A | B |
|---|
| United Nations | world organization formed to prevent war |
| iron curtain | division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War |
| containment | policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism |
| Truman Doctrine | policy of giving aid to countries threatened by communism |
| Marshall Plan | plan to give aid to European countries to help them recover from the war |
| COld War | state of tension and mistrust between the US and the USSR after WWII |
| NATO | military alliance including the US, Canada, and several countries in Western Europe |
| Warsaw Pact | military alliance between the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe |
| brinksmanship | willingness on the part of the superpower to go to the edge of war |
| U2 incident | shooting down of a US spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union |
| Mao Zedong | communist leader who defeated the Nationalists and led the People's Republic of China |
| Jiang Jieshi | Nationalist leader who set up a new government in Taiwan |
| commune | large farm set up in China in which many families work the land and live together |
| Red Guards | young Chinese students who carried out the Cultural Revolution |
| Cultural Revolution | uprising in China between 1968 and 1976 that aimed to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal |
| 38th parallel | line that separated North Korea and South Korea |
| Douglas MacArthur | leader of the UN forces during the Korean War |
| Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese nationalist who drove the French out of Vietnam and who led North Vietnam |
| domino theory | theory that nations were like a row of dominoes; if one fell to communism, the others would fall too |
| Vietcong | communist rebels in South Vietnam who were supported by North Vietnam |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | leader of the anticommunist governmentof South Vietnam |
| Vietnamization | Nixon's plan for gradually withdrawing US troops from Vietnam and replacing them with South Vietnamese troops |
| Khmer Rouge | communist rebels who set up a brutal government in Cambodia |
| Third World | developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America |
| nonaligned nations | countries that did not take sides with either the US or the USSR |
| Fidel Castro | communist leader of Cuba |
| Anastasio Somoza | Nicaraguan dictator |
| Daniel Ortega | leader of Communist rebels in Nicaragua |
| Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi | pro Western ruler of Iran |
| Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini | Muslim leader who overthrew the Shah of Iran |
| Nikita Khrushchev | leader of the USSR after Stalin |
| destalinization | process of getting rid of Stalin's memory |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Soviet leader after Khrushchev |
| John F. Kennedy | President of the US from 1961 to 1963 |
| Lyndon Johnson | President of the US from 1963 to 1969 |
| detente | policy to decrease tensions between the superpowers |
| Richard M. Nixon | President of the US from 1969-1974 |
| SALT | talks to limit nuclear arms in the US and USSR |
| Ronald Reagan | President of the US from 1981-1989 |
| Star Wars | program to protect America against enemy missiles |
