Vocabulary

The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 to solve world conflicts.

The  boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas

An American policy to prevent the spread of communism.

An American foreign policy created to aid nations from imperialistic forces.

An American plan to aid Western Europe.

A state of political and military tension between U.S.A and Russia.

A global military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty

An alliance  between the Soviet Union and some Eastern European countries.

The practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping

The border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War.

 A Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Vietnam 

 A theory that if one region came under communism, others will follow.

A Prime Minister of Vietnam who was Assasinated in 1963.

The name given by Western Europe during the Vietnam War.

A policy by Richard Nixon to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War

The name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia.

The developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Third World countries that rejected alliance with the United States or the Soviet Union.

A revolutionary, communist prime minister of Cuba

Supreme religious, political leader of Islam.

 A politician who led the Soviet Union during the Cold War

 The Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The 35th President of the United States of  America

Vice President turned President after the death of John Kennedy

The period of eased tensions between the U.S.A and Russia

The 37th President of the U.S.A / The only President to resign from office

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the U.S and the Soviet Union

The 40th President of the U.S.A

Former President of Egypt during the 1970s.

The Palestine Liberation Organization

Former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization

An act that called for a peace treaty to be signed between Israel and Egypt

A revolt against Isralians staying at the West Bank.

 Agreements between the government of Israel and the PLO.

Someone who is part of Jihad.

An Islamic political movement in Afghanistan.

The last leader of the Soviet Union

A Soviet policy to emphasize political and social issues.

 A political movement for change within the Communist Party

The first President of the new Russian Federation.

An organization of differeent states after the collapse of the Soviet Union

A therapy in which the patients are electrified to help with mental issues.

The independent trade unions response to the Communist government in raising prices for basic goods. 

A former polish politician who founded Solidarity

The Reunification is the unification of two parts of Germany.

The mass killing of people of an ethnic or religious group