| Term | Definition |
| adolf hitler | dictator of germany in 1933 |
| jews | blamed for everything that went wrong in germany |
| 6 million | killed in the holocaust |
| ww2 | began in 1939 |
| soviet union and great britain | they fought against germany in ww2 |
| berlin | was separated into halves by a wall |
| west germany | had better living than west germany |
| democracy | the government that germany has today |
| east and west germany | how germany was seperated |
| 1989 | the berlin wall came down |
| alexander 2 | freed the serfs in 1861 |
| ivan the terrible | first czar forced peasants to become serfs |
| lenin | communist leader bolsheviks led russian reuplution |
| stalin | ruled soviet union during ww2 name ment steel |
| nikita khrushev | ruled during the taw of russia |
| french and british | fought russia in ww1 |
| detente | peiod of lessoning tentions |
| m. georbacheb | led when soviet republics declared independance |
| ussr | union of soviet socialist republics |
| cold war | war betweeen words and ideas no shots fired |