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Gandhi Nehru
The Nehru–Indira Gandhi family is an Indian political dynasty, revolved around the Indian National Congress. Members of the family have traditionally led the Congress party and the Republic of India since gaining independence. -
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instilling a reign of terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism -
Mao Zedong
principal Chinese theorist, soldier, and statesman who led his country’s communist revolution. Mao was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party. -
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
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Pan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism, the idea that people of African descent have should be unified.Pan-Africanists envision a unified African nation where all people of the African diaspora can live -
Gary Powers
Was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. -
Iron Curtain Speech
On March 5, 1946, Sir Winston Churchill visited Westminster College as the Green Lecturer and delivered "Sinews of Peace," a message heard round the world that went down in history as the "Iron Curtain Speech." -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine established that The United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from non-democratic forces. it was established by President Harry S. Truman. -
Apartheid
policy that governed relations between South Africa’s white minority and nonwhite majority and sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites. The implementation of apartheid, often called “separate development” since the 1960's, was made possible through the Population Registration Act of 1950, which classified all South Africans as either Bantu (all black Africans), -
Korean War
The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal participant, joined the war on the side of the South Koreans, and the People’s Republic of China came to North Korea’s aid. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was as a defence treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet states in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War -
Vietnam War
a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the VietCong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. Called the American War in Vietnam (or, in full, the War Against the Americans to Save the Nation), the war was also part of a larger regional conflict (see Indochina wars) and a manifestation of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. -
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Space Race
The period of competition between leading world superpowers; The United States and The Soviet Union to reign supreme the ability to fly to the moon and back. -
OPEC
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in Baghdad, Iraq, with the signing of an agreement in September 1960 by five countries namely Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. They were to become the Founder Members of the Organization. -
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Berlin Wall
A wall built to separate eastern communist Germany and democratic western Germany. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union that were aimed at curtailing the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. -
Iranian Revolution
Also called Islamic Revolution. n January 1978, incensed by what they considered to be slanderous remarks made against Khomeini in Eṭṭelāʿāt, a Tehrān newspaper, thousands of young madrassa (religious school) students took to the streets. They were followed by thousands more Iranian youth—mostly unemployed recent immigrants from the countryside—who began protesting the regime’s excesses. -
SALT II
The SALT II negotiations opened late in 1972 and continued for seven years. A basic problem in these negotiations was the asymmetry between the strategic forces of the two countries, the U.S.S.R. having concentrated on missiles with large warheads while the United States had developed smaller missiles of greater accuracy.The SALT II treaty was signed by President Jimmy Carter and Brezhnev in Vienna on June 18, 1979, and was submitted to the U.S. Senate for ratification shortly thereafter. -
Soviet–Afghan War
An invasion of Afghanistan by troops from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim militia during the Afghan War. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an Alliance that consists of 28 independent member countries across North America and Europe stating that a military attack against any of the signatories would be considered an attack against them all
