- Government official who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
- Incident involving U.S. spy plane being shot down over the U.S.S.R.
- Leader of the Soviet Union who replaced Stalin.
- Nuclear reactor that "melted down" and was a test of the Soviet "glasnost policy."
- The U.S., Canada and 10 Western European countries signed a defensive pact.
- Provided $400 million in economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey, the formal declaration of the "Cold War."
- Proposed the European Recovery Program, won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1953.
- Promised the use of military force to protect American interests in the Persian Gulf Region.
- Killing of students that helped speed up the end of the Vietnam War.
- Law that limits the President's use of military force.
- Internal documents which proved the government was lying about Vietnam.
- Turning point of the Vietnam War, proved that the war was not winnable.
- Strategy to "roll back" Soviet backed communist governments using overt and covert aid.
- Scandal by which government officials provided weapons to Iran to gain the release of hostages and money to anti-leftist forces in Nicaragua
- Soviet policy of living in peace with non-communist nations.
- The murder of 300 Vietnamese civilians by American troops.
- relaxation in tension between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
- Aid to any Middle Eastern nation that resisted Communism.
- The use of the threat of nuclear weapons to prevent the spread of Communism.
- policy of reducing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war, turning the war over to the South Vietnamese.