| A | B |
|---|
| Strategic Defense Initiative | program in which lasers would destroy missles |
| Contras | anticommunists counterrevolutionaries of Nicaragua |
| glasnost | a new openness |
| perestoika | reforming Soviet system |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | President of USSR 1985 |
| Iran-Contra affair | US sells weapons to Iran to pressure terrorists in Lebanon to release hostages |
| Manuel Noriega | Panama's dictator |
| Tiananmen Square | Chinese student prodemacracy protest crushed 06/04/89 |
| apartheid | rigid segregation of South Africa |
| divest | withdraw investments |
| Saddam Hussein | Iraq dictator |
| Operation Desert Storm | US attack on Iraq, 1991 |
| tolerate | to put up with |
| Nelson Mandela | leader of antiapartheid movement in South Africa |
