| A | B |
|---|
| Yalta Conference | the participants agreed to post war terms including the division of Germany and peace / security after the war |
| containment | policy for preventing the spread of communism |
| Iron Curtain | imaginary line that separates communists from non communists |
| NATO | an agreement by noncommunist countries to help one another in crisis |
| Warsaw Pact | an agreement by communist countries to help one another in crisis. This was in response to NATO |
| Korean Conflict | conflict from 1950-1953 |
| Vietnam War | war that spanned 1964 - 1975 |
| Berlin Wall | a symbol of the Cold War and the hostile confrontation between democracy and communism |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | the brink of nuclear war between U.S.S.R. and the U.S. at which time each were stationing nuclear weapons on the border of the opposite country close to the other's border |
| deterrence | a level of power that dissuades a potential attacker |
| Chiang Kai-shek | took over China with the help of the Soviet Union and established a government that did little for the common man, later fled to Taiwan |
| Mao Tse-tung | led the Chinese communists on the long march |
| Ho Chi Minh | leader of the communist Vietminh of North Vietnam |
| Mohandas Ghandi | Indian nationalist that taught nonviolence and tolerance |
| civil disobedience | refusal to obey laws that are considered unfair |
| passive resistance | nonviolent protest |
| Jomo Kenyatta | elected Kenya’s first president, believed in nationalism |
| self-determination | the right of a people to decide their own political status or government |
| apartheid | racial separation and discrimination in South Africa |
| Cold War | struggle between communist Soviet Union and democratic U.S. |
| Indira Ghandi | two term female Prime Minister of India, promoted a policy of modernization |
| Margaret Thatcher | three term female Prime Minister of Great Britain that championed "conservative" policies |
| Nelson Mandela | South African that helped eliminate apartheid policies, became the first black president of South Africa |
| glasnost | policy of openness instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980's |
| Gamal Abdul Nasser | Egyptian leader known for industrilization and Arab Nationalism |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | leading figure in the Indian independence movement, India's longest serving Prime Minister to date (1947 - 1964) |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet leader that supported perestroika and glasnost |
| Golda Meir | Israel's first female Prime Minister, led during the Munich Olympic murders and the Yom Kippur War |
| Deng Xiaoping | Chinese political figure that was known for the restoration of China's economic growth after the abuses of the Cultural Revolution |
| Indian National Congress | political party established in 1885 to promote Indian independence from Great Britain, became India's dominant political party after independence in 1947 |
| petrestroika | restructuring of the Soviet government and economy in the 1980's |
