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| Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet Union leader during the U-2 incident |
| Fidel Castro | A Cuban who led a successful revolution against the US supported Cuban governmen |
| John F. Kennedy | A Democratic President of the United States that defeated Richard Nixon |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | The assassin who shot and killed President John F. Kennedy |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Vice President who became President when John F. Kennedy was assassinated |
| U2 Incident | An incident in which a US spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | US placed missiles in Turkey aimed at the Soviet Union so the Soviet Union responded by placing nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba |
| Sputnik | The first Soviet Union satellite sent into space |
| Berlin Wall | A wall built to divide the communist East Berlin from the democratic West Berlin |
| NASA | This federal agency was established in response to the launching of Sputnik. |
