| A | B |
|---|
| Berlin Airlift | The US resupply of a blockaded Berlin |
| Truman | US President at end of war |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of Vietnamese revolutionaries |
| Khmer Rouge | Communist regime in Cambodia |
| Mao Zedong | Chinese communist leader |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| UN | United Nations |
| Sputnik | Russian satellite, first man-made |
| Jiang Jieshi | Led Chinese nationalists |
| Fidel Castro | Cuban Communist leader |
| MacArthur | led US forces in Korean War |
| Vietcong | communist guerillas in South Vietnam |
| Star Wars | anti-missile defense system |
| communes | large collective farms |
| Daniel Ortega | leader of Sandinistas |
| Anastasio Somoza | communist dictator of Nicaragua |
| ICBM | Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile |
| Domino Theory | If one country falls, neighbors will follow |
| buffer states | nations that block to opposing states |
