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  1. 3. wall / The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989
  2. 5. war / Korean War. A war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s
  3. 7. / in the Russian language the word glasnost has several general and specific meanings. It has been used in Russian to mean "openness and transparency"
  4. 10. / The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly known as the Soviet Union and known outside as Russia
  5. 11. / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian and formerly Soviet politician. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union,
  6. 13. / a theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.
  7. 15. zedong / Mao Zedong, commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China
  8. 18. charlie / Checkpoint Charlie was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.
  9. 19. war / The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance
  10. 20. / a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
  11. 22. / Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia
  12. 23. phone / The Red Phone, also known as the Red Telephone, the Moscow-Washington hotline
  13. 25. / Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War
  14. 26. curtain / The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II
  15. 29. race / An arms race, in its original usage, is a competition between two or more states to have the best armed forces.
  16. 32. / was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s and 1990s
  17. 33. / The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance
  18. 35. / a list of people or groups regarded as unacceptable or untrustworthy and often marked down for punishment or exclusion.
  19. 37. / an object which is forcibly propelled at a target, either by hand or from a mechanical weapon.
  20. 38. plan / The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance
  21. 39. menace / Red Menace or red menace may refer to: Red Scare or Red Menace, a term used during the Cold War era to describe the Soviet Union
  22. 40. / a very powerful and influential nation (used especially with reference to the US and the former Soviet Union when these were perceived as the two most powerful nations in the world).
  23. 42. doctrine / The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
  24. 44. pact / The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance
  25. 45. francis powers / was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
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  1. 1. / John Fitzgerald Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President
  2. 2. / Détente is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation.
  3. 3. / Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician of Ukrainian citizenship, who led the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982
  4. 4. / The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance,
  5. 6. / The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the United States
  6. 7. / Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He became the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth
  7. 8. chi minh / was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was Chairman and First Secretary
  8. 9. / DEF CON is one of the world's largest hacker conventions, held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada,
  9. 12. party / A communist party is a political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles of communism through state policy.
  10. 14. and cover / Duck and Cover is a civil defense social guidance film that is often popularly mischaracterized as propaganda.
  11. 15. assured destruction / mutual assured destruction or mutually assured destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons
  12. 16. race / The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight capability
  13. 17. / McCarthyism is the practice in the United States of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
  14. 21. / the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
  15. 24. theory / The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism
  16. 27. missile crisis / The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962
  17. 28. / Duck and Cover is a civil defense social guidance film that is often popularly mischaracterized as propaganda.
  18. 30. / Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth
  19. 31. / he political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis of communism.
  20. 32. / the principal policy making committee in the former Soviet Union, founded in 1917.
  21. 34. shelter /
  22. 36. state / A client state is a state that is economically, politically, or militarily subordinate to another more powerful
  23. 41. / Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989
  24. 43. / Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba