This president is known for being assasinated early in his presidency. He was also involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion as well as the Cuban Missile Crisis

John F. Kennedy

He is most known for being the only president to resign from office as a result of the Watergate Scandal. 

Richard Nixon

This presidnt is most known for being in office during the end of the Cold War wih the Soviet Union. 

Ronald Reagan 

This president's greatest acheivement was the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed most forms of racial discrimmination including segregation in schools. 

Lyndon B. Johnson

This president's motto was, "The buck stops here."

Harry S. Truman

THis western leader wanted to secure political freedom and democratic governments through out post war Europe, a goal that it butted heads with Russia on.

United States of America

This country sought to secure its borders by keeping power in central and eastern europe. 

Russia

During the Cold War, this country renewed a civil war within itself

China

This country was caught in the middle of the American and Russian dispute following World War II, and would eventually side with the U.S. in it's NATO Pact.   

Britain

This countries govenment was supported by the Soviet Union as it battled a rebel group called the Mujahideen.

Afhanistan 

A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to manufacture the most nuclear weapons. They also tried to outdo each other in weapons technology and defense. 

Arms Race

An economic system based on private ownership (rather than government ownership) and the free market system. 

Capitalism

Communism

An economic system based on government ownership and control of resources. 

A descriptive term or symbol used to describe the border between the communist and democratic countries of Europe. The idea of the iron curtain was that it kept information and people from crossing from the communist east to the democratic west. 

Iron Curtain

Talks that happened between the United States and the Soviet Union, in which they agreed to limit the number of nuclear weapons they made. 

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)

He was the leader of the Soviet Union at the end of WWII and duing the beginning of the Cold War

Joseph Stalin

This dictator ruled for over 45 years and lead the Cuban Revolution

Fidel Castro 

He was the founding father of the People's Rebuplic of China

Mao Zedong

This russian leaders first job was at a butter making factory. He was also the leader of the Sovie Union during the majority of the Cold War

Leniod Brezhev

This Soviet Leader's nickname is "The Marked One."

Mikhali Gorbachev

During what specific time period did the Cold War take place?

1945-1991

a time of extreme anti-communism in the United States. People were scared that communists had infiltrated the government. 

Red Scare

A country that is significantly stronger, especially in regards to their military, than most other countries. During the Cold War the Soviet Union and the United States were these.  

Superpower

The term given to accusations of treason or disloyalty without having evidence. It comes from a time when Senator McCarthy of the US made several accusations of people being communists and traitors during the Cold War. 

McCarthyism

Name three of the countries the Soviet Union Invaded leading up to  the Cold War.  

Possible Answers: Korea, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Latvia, Estonia, Romaina, Finnland