| A | B |
|---|
| United Nations | an international forum to settle disputes and promote world peace |
| Iron Curtain | the invisible boundary between democratic and communist Europe |
| Cold War | the tense war of words and ideas between the U.S. and the Soviet Union |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance between democratic countries |
| Warsaw Pact | an alliace between communist countries |
| Lech Walesa | Polish leader who led a worker's strike and was later elected President of Poland |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | head of the Soviet Union who created changes in communist rule |
| glasnost | the policy that made it possible for communist people to speak freely |
| Boris Yeltsin | President of Russia who brought democracy to that region |
| European Community | a group of 12 powerful European nations |
| depression | a slowdown of business which causes unemployment and poverty |
| Adolf Hitler | a German dictator who led the Nazis and attempted to take over Europe |
| Joseph Stalin | leader of the Soviet Union during WWII |
| blitzkrieg | lightning war |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister during WWII |
| Franklin Roosevelt | U.S. President during WWII |
| Holocaust | the systematic killing of European Jews during WWII |
| Anne Frank | a young Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis and kept a diary of her experience |
| concentration camps | Nazi camps where Jews were sent to be murdered |
| nationalism | a feeling of loyalty and devotion to one's country |
| alliance | a formal agreement between nations to work together in war or commerce |
| Franz Ferdinand | Archduke of Austria-Hungary who was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist |
