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US President who escalated the American presence in Vietnam. He was assassinated in 1963
John F Kennedy
US President who took office in 1981 and denounced the USSR as "an evil empire"
Ronald Reagan
A war in which superpowers backed different sides - act as substitutes for the superpowers themselves
Proxy War
These two words were added to the Pledge of Allegiance during the Cold War
"Under God"
This Allied power suffered the greatest number of deaths during WW2, further building animosity between themselves and the U.S.
Soviet Union
US senator who led the charge in rooting out communists & spies within America.
Joe McCarthy
Soviet leader who tried to reform the communist system through he policies of glasnost & perestroika
Mikhail Gorbachev
The practice of spying or using spies, typically by governments to obtain political & military information
Espionage
The peak of the Cold War and the closest the world has ever come to global nuclear war
Cuban Missile Crisis
The theory that if one country came under the influence of Communism, surrounding countries would follow
Domino Effect
US President who warned about the growing influence of the Military-Industrial Complex - he was concerned it was encouraging the nuclear arms race.
Dwight Eisenhower
Former US President who developed the policy of Containment (keep Communism from spreading)
Harry Truman
The US plan to aid & promote Europe in economic recovery after WW2
The Marshall Plan
This Communist leader survived 634 attempts on his life & died at 90 of natural causes
Fidel Castro
One of the crossing points between West Berlin and East Berlin when the Berlin Wall divided the city
Checkpoint Charlie
The Communist revolutionary who was the founding head of government in Soviet Russia from 1917-1924
V.I. Lenin
US President who promised to get the US out of Vietnam but secretly increased the number of troops in Laos & Cambodia
Richard Nixon
The metaphorical division between the Eastern "communist" world and the Western "democratic" world
Iron Curtain
In the event of THIS, Gorbachev & Reagan agreed to pause Cold War aggressions between the two countries.
Alien Invasion
This term, which translates to "restructuring" refers to a series of political and economic reforms meant to kick-start the stagnant 1980s economy of the Soviet Union
Perestroika
South Vietnam's anti-communist leader supported by the US Military
Ngo Nimh Diem
The leader of Vietnam's independence movement & supporter of communism
Ho Chi Minh
This term means increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union (USSR)
Glasnost
This program armed US B-52 bombers with nuclear weapons from 1960-1968
Operation Chrome Dome
The 2 & 1/2 mile zone between North Korea from South Korea
Demilitarized zone (DMZ)