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Cold War

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Afghanistan
Soviets invaded in 1979. US backed mujahedin - Islamic warriors
Berlin Wall
Built under Khrushchev and pulled down under Gorbachev
Gorbachev
Policy of perestroika, economic reconstructing, and glasnost, greater
Ho Chi Minh
Led north Vietnam, supported the guerilla fighters in the south called the Vietnam Congress trying to overthrow the south Vietnamese gverment
Iron curtain countries
Eastern European countries under Stalin's Power - term coined by Winston Churchill
Kennedy
Went to Berlin where he said "Ich bin ein Berliner"
Khrushchev
Head of Soviet Union after Stalin x said "we (the Soviet Union) will burry you ( the United States)
Korean War
When the communist north led by Kim II sung invaded South Korea, led by Syngman Rhee - stalemate and demilitarized zone was built
NATO
North Atlantic treaty organization
Pol pot
Leader of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Vietnam invaded cabodia to over grow him and stop the genocide of the Cambodian people
Reagan
President of US who told Gorbachev "tear down this wall" (Berlin wall)
Solidarity
Independent labor union in Poland led by lech Walesa
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