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2. A direct line of communication between the White House and the Kremlin established in 1963. Often called the "red telephone."
5. An economic theory in which collective ownership of property leads to a classless society.
8. Massive military build-up, especially of nuclear weapons, by both the Soviet Union and the United States in an effort to gain military superiority.
9. A competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to prove their superiority in technology through increasingly impressive accomplishments in space.
10. The concern within the U.S. that the Soviet Union had greatly surpassed the U.S. in its stockpile of nuclear missiles.

1. A crossing point between West Berlin and East Berlin when the Berlin Wall divided the city.
3. The struggle for power between the Soviet Union and the United States that lasted from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union. The war was considered "cold" because the aggression was ideological, economic, and diplomatic rather than a direct military conflict.
4. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), also commonly called the Soviet Union, was a country that consisted of what is now Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
6. Introduced in June 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev, an economic policy to decentralize the Soviet economy. The term translates to "restructuring" in Russian.
7. A term used by Winston Churchill in a speech to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states.