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Communist leader of the Cuban Revolution
Who is Fidel Castro?
City split into four sectors after World War II
What is Berlin?
Plan to keep communism in the countries in which it was already the ruling political system and prevent its spread.
What is containment?
Rivalry between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. from approximately 1945 to 1991
What is the Cold War?
Nixon-Brezhnev treaties that restrained the Arms Race and limited nuclear weapons in the 1970s
Leader of the "Great Leap Forward" in China
Who is Mao Zedong?
Country split at the 38th Parallel
What is Korea?
Regan-era defense program to protect Americans from Russian ICBMs
What is Star Wars?
U.S.-led assistance program providing food, machinery, and other materials to rebuild Western Europe
What is the Marshall Plan?
Nation that reunified in 1990
What is Germany?
Students who led the Cultural Revolution
Who are the Red Guards?
Country where mujahideen fought against Soviet invasion and Communist control
What is Afghanistan?
Idea that an event in one country will cause a similar event in a neighboring country
What is the Domino Theory?
Coalition of free/democratic countries allied with the United States
What is the Western Bloc?
Russian policy of openness and improved freedom of expression
What is Glasnost?
Communist guerilla fighters in South Vietnam
Who were the Viet Cong?
Islamist country led by Ayatollah Khomeini after the shah fled in 1979
What is Iran?
What is Sputnik?
Collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in response to NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Policy of restructuring the Russian government and economy in the 1980s
What is Perestroika?
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Country where Khmer Rouge brutalized its population under Pol Pot
What is Cambodia (Kampuchia)?
What ICBM stands for
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
The boundary which symbolically, ideologically, and physically divided Europe into two separate areas during the Cold War
What is the Iron Curtain?
Formally acknowledged the post-World War II borders in Europe and recognized human rights and freedoms
What is the Helsinki Final Act?