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Persian gulf war
US-led forces liberated kuwait from Iraq in 1992 1991
Saddam Hussein
President of Iraq
Al Qaeda
The base of the Islamist terrorist organization
Osama bin laden
Founder of al queda
Taliban
Islamist group that took control overmuch of Afghanistan
Nonaligned nations
Nations who refused to Ally was either side in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union
Détente
Reduce tension between the United States and Soviet Union
Martin Luther king jr
American civil rights leader
Counterculture
A rebellion of teenagers and then adults against mainstream American society
Iron Curtain
Term by Winston Churchhill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line dividing communist countries
Truman doctrine
US Pres. Truman pledged to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communist
Marshall plan
Plan for the economic reconstruction of Europe after World War II
Containment
The US policy adopted in the 1940s to stop the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries opposing the Soviets
Import
To bring those into a place
Berlin airlift
A program in which the US and Britain ships supplies by the air to West Berlin
Nürnberg trials
Trials in which an allied like military tribunal tried several dozen top Nazis and military official
Cold War
US and Soviets entered an era of tension hostility
Bay of Pigs invasion
The failed attempts of Cuban exiles backed by the US to overthrow the Cuban socialist government of Fidel Castro
Cuban missile crisis
Confrontation between the US and Soviet Union over the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba
Solidarity
An independent labor Union founded in Soviet controlled Poland in 1980
Mikhail Gorbachev
Russian politician
Perestroika
Restructuring
Velvet revolution
Hey quick peaceful revolution that swept the communist from power in Czechoslovakia
Boris Yeltsin
Russian politician and president of Russia