Yalta - City where Allied leaders met to divy up postwar Europe, Nuremberg - City where Nazi officials were tried after World War II, Tokyo - City where Japanese leaders were tried after World War II, NATO - Defensive pact between the United States and other western powers during the Cold War, Warsaw Pact - Defensive pact between the USSR and eastern powers during the Cold War, Containment - Truman's policy of trying to stop the expansion of the communism, Communism - Soviet economic system, Iron Curtain - metaphorical dividing line between the democratic capitalist countries in the west, and communist dictatorships in the east, Satellite - a country that is recognized as independent, but is under the strong influence/control of another state, Berlin Airlift - Western attempt to supply Berlin after Stalin cut off trade, Berlin Wall - East German attempt to prevent workers from fleeing the communist country; became a symbol of the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis - Closest the world came to nuclear war, Deterrence - Discouraging an action or event through distilling fear of the consequences, Chiang Kai Shek - Leader of the Chinese nationalists, Mao Zedong - Leader of the Chinese communists, Taiwan - Under control of the Chinese nationalists after the civil war, China - Under control of the Chinese communists after the civil war, France - Country that colonized Indochina, Indochina - French colony that included Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, Ho Chi Minh - Vietnamese communist leader, Indira - First name of the leader who was the first female prime minister of India; India developed a nuclear program under her rule, Glasnost - Political reform program in the USSR that allowed "openness", Perestroika - Economic program in the USSR that allowed more free enterprise, Thatcher - Last name of the prime minister of Great Britain who encouraged free trade and less government regulation of business, Gorbachev - Last name of the last president of the Soviet Union, Deng Xiaoping - Reformed Communist China's economy to a market economy,

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