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Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of 3,400 mi primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery -
Yalta Conference
World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization -
Truman Doctrine
policy that the US made to support countries threatened by the Soviet Union -
Berlin Air Lift
U.S. & British airplanes fly supplies to West Berlin -
Berlin Blockade
Soviets block entrances to Berlin -
Marshall Plan
United States gave aid to Europen countries -
COMECON
economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc -
NATO
intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European state -
Federal Republic of Germany
West Germany, democratic state -
Korean War
War began when North Korea invaded South Korea, United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union gave some assistance -
Hydrogen Bomb
more destructive, 1st Atomic Weapons -
Eisenhower
34th president of the United States -
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet leader after Stalin -
Krushchev
premier of Soviet Union during part of Cold war -
Cuban Revolution
armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement -
Vietnamization
policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War -
Warsaw Pact
was a collective defence treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe -
Hungarian Revolution
nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies -
Sputnik 1
first artificial Earth satellite -
Fidel Castro
politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 -
U2 Incident
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace -
John F Kennedy
35th president of the United States, had term after Eisenhower -
Yuri Gagarin
first human to journey into outer space -
Bay of Pigs
Failed military invasion of Cuba by US -
Berlin Wall Built
wall that was built with fortified concrete and wire that separated East and West Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
fight between the US and Soviet Union over the presence of missle sites in Cuba -
Détente
a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union -
Perestroika
political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
Fall of Berlin Wall
Was torn down as a symbol of the fall of the repressive communist government -
Glasnost
Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues
