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| Missiles that can shoot down other missiles. |
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| Western powers' response to Soviet blockade in which the cargo planes supplied food and fuel. |
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| The forced joining together of workers and property into collectives, such as rural collectives that absorb peasants and their land. |
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| The U.S. strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries and preventing its further expansion. |
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| A thin band of territory across the Korean peninsula separating North Korean forces from South Korean forces; established by the armistice of 1953. |
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| The relaxation of Cold War tensions during the 1970's. |
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| The belief that a communist victory in South Vietnam would cause noncommunist governments across Southeast Asia to fall to communism, like a row of dominos. |
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| "Openness" in Russian; a Soviet policy greater freedom of expression introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the lat 1980's. |
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| Small groups of loosely organized soldiers making surprise raids. |
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| System of thought and belief; value system of perspective. |
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| Massive aid package offered by the United States to Europe to help countries rebuild after WWII. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| A military alliance between several North Atlantic states to safeguard them from the presumed threat of the Soviet Union's communist bloc; countries from other regions later joined the alliance. |
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| "Restructuring" in Russian; a Soviet policy of democratic and free-market reforms introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980's. |
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| A nation stronger that other powerful nations. |
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| United States Policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism. |
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| International organization established after WWII with the goal of maintaining peace and cooperation in the international community. |
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| Mutual-defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe set up in 1955. |
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