| A | B |
|---|
| Mikhail Gorbachev | president of Soviet Union |
| Boris Yeltsin | president of Russia |
| Cape Town | capital of South Africa |
| Nairobi | capital of Kenya |
| sharia | Islamic law |
| Hosni Mubarak | president of Egypt |
| Islamic Group | funddamentalist organization active in Egypt |
| Saddam Hussein | dictator of Iraq |
| H. Norman Schwarzkopf | commanded the coalition forces |
| Mao Zedong | leader of China's Communist Party |
| Tiananmen Square | site of demonstrations for democratic reforms in Beijing |
| SAR | Special Administrative Region |
| Tokyo | capital of Japan |
| New Delhi | capital of India |
| Cambodia | world's largest supplier of illegal narcotics |
| Carlos Salinas | Mexico's president from 1988-1994 |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
| Cruise missiles | fly low and can escape radar detection |
| Ballistic missiles | fly high and can travel great distances |
