| A | B |
|---|
| space race | competition between USSR and US regarding advancement of space program |
| Korean War | North Korea (communist) vs. South Korea (non communist) |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | Castro allowed USSR to use nuclear missle bases in Cuba; US said to remove missles; they were removed |
| Berlin Airlift | the dropping of supplies(by air) into Berlin by Western Powers while the Soviets tried to block-off the city |
| Berlin Wall | built in 1961 to divide soviet controlled E. Berlin from democratic W. Berlin |
| Iron Curtain | how Churchill described USSR's isolation of Eastern Europe from the rest of the world |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | USSR leader from 1985-91; contributed to the downfall of communism |
| sputnik | soviet satellite put into orbit in 1957 (1st man-made satellite) |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | Castro allowed USSR to use nuclear missle bases in Cuba; US said to remove missles; they were removed |
| Balfour Declaration | this is the name given to a 1917 letter from a British foreign secretary who seemed to make promises to both Zionists and Palestinians |
| Cuba | Fidel Castro is the communist dictator of this country |
| Nikita Khrushchev | he squared off against Kennedy during the Berlin crisis |
