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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 allowed Stalin to keep control of the countries in E. Europe that he occupied during WWII |
| Harry Truman | US president who started 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 for the "satellite"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 |
| 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. |
| 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 near US |
| Korean War | Cold War conflict involving USA supporting one side, and the USSR and China supporting the other. It resulted in a stalemate leaving the country still divided today |
| DMZ | border that divides N. Korea and S. Korea today |
| Vietnam War | conflict where US tried to stop spread of communism as part of policy of containment. After the US defeat, the country at the center of this conflict was re-united under a communist government |
| Berlin Airlift | US decision to deliver 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. |
| Deng Xiaoping | communist leader in China who adopted a market economy but did NOT allow democracy |
| Indira Gandhi | World leader who developed closer ties with the USSR and built her nation's nuclear program |
| Margaret Thatcher | world leader who strenghtened her country's ecnomy and military while allying closely with the US in the Cold War |
| Glasnost | "openness" a reform of Gorbachev that allowed for more freedom of speech |
| Perestroika | "Restructuring" a gorbachev reform that allowed for some elements of capitalism |
| Russia | country that inherited the USSR's nuclear arsenal when the USSR dissolved |
| West Berlin | Prosperous city totally surrounded by communist E. Germany |
| France | country that had possessed Vietnam as its colony prior to independence |
| Japan | country whose defeat in WWII led to opportunities for new governments to arise |
| Mainland China (PRC) | portion of China that became communist after the Chinese Civil War |
| Nationalism | idea that led to independence movemments in E. Europe that helped weaken USSR |
| Democracy | political system favored by US that allowed for free election of government officials |
| Dictatorship | political system favored by USSR limited the rights of people |
| Josef Stalin | initial leader of USSR during Cold War |
| 1991 Coup | failed attempt by old communists to take end Gorbachev's reforms and reinstate communism. Its failure resulted in the dissolution of the USSR |
| Poland | country whose nationalist "Solidarity" movement helped bring reforms and end Communism |
| Germany | country that was reunited after te fall of the Berlin Wall |
| containment | policy of keeping communism from spreading rather than trying to eliminate it where it existed |
