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Adolf Hitler's bodyguards; later enlarged to be a subsidiary army and to provide guards for the concentration camps.
SS
The longest lasting populist movement in Latin America, it was founded in the 1940s by Juan Peron. It was banned from 1955 to 1966, after Peron was toppled by a military coup.
Peronismo
A campaign of political repression and state terror in Latin American countries involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, mainly civilians, originally planned by the CIA.
Operation Condor
1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood.
Nuremberg Laws
A policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society
Perestroika
Khrushchev revealed the existence of a letter written by Lenin that was very critical of Stalin; used to denounce Stalin's rules & practices
Secret Speech
The blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift.
Berlin Blockade
Biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people
Final Solution
A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world.
Berlin Wall
The treaty between Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin in which each agreed to maintain neutrality in any forthcoming war involving the other party.
Nonaggression Pact of 1939
Unsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad during World War II from 1942 to 1943, that was the furthest extent of German advance into the Soviet Union.
Battle of Stalingrad
North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries
NATO
1962 crisis that arose between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
Detente