| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Russian Revolution | The event when communism became the government system of Russia |
| Czar Nicholas II | He abdicated power in Russia prior to the Russian Revolution |
| Rwanda | The country where genocide took place between Hutu and Tutsi in 1994 |
| Command | The type of economic system where all aspects are controlled by the government |
| Camp David Accords | The name given to the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty |
| Ping Pong | The sport which began the process of "openning" China to normal relations with the US |
| Cultural Revolution | The event where Mao Zedong sought to recharge the communist revolution in China and cleanse out all non communist thinking. The youth of China led this movement |
| Germany | This country was split into four "zones" following WWII |
| Ethnocentrism | The belief that one's culture is superior to another |
| Egypt | The first Arab nation to sign a peace treaty with Israel |
| Terrorism | Violent acts aimed at innocent civilians in order to make a political statement |
| Berlin Wall | This structure was built to divide the city of Berlin during the Cold War |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | The last communist leader of the Soviet Union prior to the end of the Cold War |
| Great Leap Forward | Mao Zedong's program to modernize China following the communist takeover. |
| Gulag | Prison camps used by Stalin to punish Soviet citizens |
| Iron Curtain | The symbolic division between communist and non-communist countries during the Cold War |
| Gandhi | Led a non-violent movement for India's independence from Britain |
| Vladimir Lenin | He was the first communist leader of the newly formed Soviet Union |
| Iran | This nation's Islamic leaders took 52 Americans hostage for over a year |
| Munich | The city was the site of the 1972 Olympic terrorist attack against Israeli athletes |
| Bolsheviks | The political party which brought communism into the Soviet Union |
| Hiroshima | The city that was victim to the dropping of the first atomic bomb |
| Israel | Nation created as a homeland for Jews |
| Zionism | The movement in effort to identify and establish a Jewish nation |
| Mao Zedong | The first communist leader of China |
| Kim Jong-il | The harsh dictator of North Korea today |
| Tiananmen Square | Site of 1989 student protests in China which pushed the communist government for democratic reforms |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | The non-communist, pro-US leader of China who was forced out by the communists during the Chinese Civil War |
| Muslim | A person who follows the Islamic faith |
| Cold War | The power struggle between communist and non-communist countries following WWII |
| Satellite | Smaller communist countries which were loyal to the Soviet Union |
| Saddam Hussein | Used chemical weapons again the Kurdish people of his country |
| Rasputin | The mystically healer who was known to advise the Czar of Russia and the Czar's wife |
| Japan | This Asian country saw tremendous economic prosperity after rebuilding from WWII |
| Moammar Qaddaffi | The leader of Libya who was a known state-sponsor of terrorism |
| Yasir Arafat | The founder and former leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization |
| Anwar Sadat | This Egyptian leader signed the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty. Was eventually assassinated |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | Led the Islamic Revolution in Iran |
| Palestine | The area of the Middle East from which the nation of Israel was formed |
| Deng Xiaoping | This Chinese leader introduced the "Four Modernizations" |
| Pakistan | This country was created as a result of Hindu-Muslim violence in India |
| Nelson Mandela | He was elected the first black president of South Africa |
| apartheid | The policy of legalized segregation in South Africa between whites and blacks |
| Manuel Noreiga | The former leader of Panama who was ousted by the US military for drug trafficking |
| Fidel Castro | The recently retired communist dictator of Cuba |
| Monarchy | A government system in which power is held by royalty and attained through birth right |
| Osama bin Laden | The world's most recognized terrorist |
| Tutsi | The minority ethnic tribe in Rwanda who were victims of the 1994 genocide |
| Hutu | The majority ethnic tribe in Rwanda who was responsible for the 1994 genocide |
| Douglas MacArthur | General in WWII and Korea. Led the post-WWII occupation of Japan. Was fired during the Korean War |
| Sandinistas | The communist government in Nicaragua during the 1980s |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | The tense 13 day standoff between the US and Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba |
| Kuwait | The country invaded by Iraq in 1990 |
| Operation Desert Storm | The code name for the liberation of Kuwait during the Perisan Gulf War of 1991 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | The US President for most of WWII |
| Yalta Conference | This WWII meeting of the "Big 3" was seen as the start of the Cold War |
| Trotsky | Was forced out of the Soviet Union by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico |
| glasnost | The Russian term for "openness" or "freedom of expression" |
| perestroika | The Russian word for "economic restructuring" |
| Little Red Book | The collection of Mao Zedong's quotations and philosophies |
| Red Guard | Name given to the young "communist enforcers" of China during the Cultural Revolution |
| Communist Manifesto | The book published by Karl Marx outlining his philosophy of communism |
| Karl Marx | The developer of the idea of communism |
| African National Congress | The political party who challenged the apartheid in South Africa |
| Axis Powers | The countries of Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII were given this term |
| Korean War | When communist crossed the 38th parallel to invade its non-communist southern half |
| Taiwan | Where Chiang Kai-Shek was forced to flee following the communist take over on mainland China |
| Asian Tigers | The nickname given to the smaller, economically strong Asian countries of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea |
| Carter | The US president who helped broker the Camp David Accords |
| Truman | This US president ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan |
| jihad | Holy War |
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