Cold War
Iron Curtain
What is the dividing line between Western and Eastern Europe
Sputnik
What was the 1st satellite successfully launched into orbit around the Earth?
Last leader of the Soviet Union
Berlin Airlift
US supplying the city with goods it needed due to a Soviet blockade
Balfour Declaration
Creating the nation of Israel
Domino Theory
Belife if one nation went communist others around it would as well
1st American into Space
Glasnost
Soviet policy which created openness with the people
United Nations
formed to prevent conflict
decolonization
granting countries their independence
Marshall Plan
giving of financial aid to European Nations to prevent the spread of Communism.
Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landing on the moon
Detent
thawing of relations between the US and USSR
Korea
1950-1953 war between North and South over communism vs democracy.
1st test of the United Nations
Mandela
Leader of anti apartheid movement in South Africa
Cuban Missle Crisis
October 1962 event when the world was on the verge of nuclear war
Apollo Soyuz Project
US Soviet effort to work in space
SALT
Limiting the arms race between the US and USSR
Vietnam
US backed South fighting Soviet backed North
Peaceful resistance
method of protest used by Ghandi and Mandela to bring change
Berlin Wall 1989
The fall of communism and the influence of the USSR
Star Wars
Reagan's space based defense plan to defeat an attack by the Soviet Union
Jello Pudding Pops
Yeltsin realizing the Soviet Union was struggling to make peoples lives better
Bay of Pigs
Failure of US backed Cuban exiles to free Cuba from Castro
Hutus and Tutsis
The Rwandan Genocide