| A | B |
|---|
| the belief that if Vietnam fell to the communists, the rest of Asia would fall in succession | DOMINO THEORY |
| a conflict from 1950 to 1953 between communist in the North and non-communist in the South that involved Soviet and Chinese support for the North and U.S. and UN support for the South | KOREAN WAR |
| a secret political, economic, or military operation sponsored by a government and designed to support a foreign policy objective | COVERT ACTION |
| communist insurgents in South Vietnam | VIET CONG |
| he replaced Stalin after his death in 1953 and publicly criticized Stalin’s harsh rule calling for a more humane path to communism. But not letting Soviet satellites leave the Soviet sphere of influence. | NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV |
| The countries south of the United States that speak Spanish or Portuguese | LATIN AMERICA |
| the Cuban Dictator who sided with the Soviet Union and allowed them to place nuclear missiles in Cuba leading to a showdown with The U.S. | FIDEL CASTRO |
| the easing of Cold War tensions and hostility between East and West during the 1970s | DÉTENTE |
| The policy of a nation that pushes a dangerous situation to the limits of safety before pulling back | BRINKMANSHIP |
| the policy of building a weapons arsenal so deadly that no other nation will dare attack | DETERRENCE |
| The Soviet leader in 1985 who was a dynamic reformer and believed that conflict between communism and capitalism was not inevitable | MIKHAIL GORBACHEV |
| the U.S. President who helped to start détente by negotiating the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), with the Soviet Union in 1972 | RICHARD NIXON |
| the war in Southeast Asia from the early 1950s to 1975 | VIETNAM WAR |
