| Term | Definition |
|---|
| SALT | talks between Nixon and leaders of the USSR to reduce nuclear arms |
| Detente | French word meaning an easing of tensions between the world's superpowers during the Cold War |
| Human Rights | Basic rights and freedoms that belong to all people. Carter fought for these rights for people in the Third World |
| Camp David Accords | A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt where Egypt agreed to recognize the nation state of Israel |
| Richard Nixon | President who began detente and engaged in the SALT talks |
| Jimmy Carter | President who stressed human rights. Because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he enacted an embargo on grain shipments to USSR and boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow |
| Ronald Reagan | At beginning of his presidency, he spent millions on arms, toward the end, he ended the arms race |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet leader who led the reform movement in the Soviet Union |
| Boris Yeltsin | Russian leader who completely broke with communism and stopped a communist takeover |
| China | A large Communist nation that Nixon visited to drive a wedge between it and the USSR |
| Soviet Union | Communist nation that collapsed in 1991 |
| Panama | A nation that would regain control of the Panama Canal in 2000 from the US |
| Iran | Country that took hostages in 1979 and where a revolution deposed the harsh leading Shah |
| Iranian Revolution | Mullahs (religious leaders) overthrow the US backed Shah and establish a theocracy (religious government) that hated the US |
| Iranian Hostage Crisis | 1979 kidnapping of American Embassy hostages in Iran. It lasted for more than a year. |
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