| A | B |
|---|
| Yalta | "Big Three" Conference |
| Perestroika | Economic restructuring |
| Glasnost | Openness |
| United Nations | Can deploy peacekeeping troops |
| Hydrogen Bomb | U.S. tested theirs in 1952 |
| Berlin Wall | Built in 1961, torn down in 1989 |
| Berlin Airlift | Truman's response to Soviet blockade |
| Nikita Khruschev | Authorized building of the Berlin Wall |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | World came to the brink of nuclear war |
| Capitalism | Economic system practiced by the US |
| Communism | Economic system practiced by the USSR |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | Failed invasion of Cuba |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | Leader of Chinese Nationalists |
| Mao Tse-Tung | Leader of Chinese Communists |
| Guerilla warfare | Fighting perfected by Mao Tse-Tung |
| Marshall Plan | Economic recovery plan for Europe |
| Domino Theory | Nations falling to Communism one after the other |
| NATO | Western economic & military alliance |
| Warsaw Pact | Eastern economic & military alliance |
| Iron Curtain | "Divided" Eastern & Western Europe |
| President Truman | Proposed the Policy of Containment |
| President Kennedy | Sent advisors to Vietnam |
| President Nixon | Began to withdraw troops from Vietnam |
| President Johnson | Sent thousands of troops to Vietnam |
| Viet-Cong | Pro-Communist forces in Vietnam |
| Douglas MacArthur | Leader of US/UN troops in Korea |
| 38th Parallel | Divided Korea |
| 17th Parallel | Divided Vietnam |
| Truman Doctrine | Tried to stop the spread of Communism |
| Arms Race | Competition to build larger & better weapons |
| Sputnik | 1st satellite launched by the Soviet Union |
| Joseph Stalin | Blockaded supplies from entering West Berlin |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of North Vietnam |
| Yalu | River separating China and North Korea |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | Leader of South Vietnam |
