Colorful Communist far east Asian nation beginning in 1949.

The symbolic line of separation between democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe.

Major nuclear weapons reduction treaty between the U.S. & U.S.S.R.

Middle Eastern terrorists hijacked American jetliners and crashed them, killing thousands.

Soviet Communist Party Secretary 1985-1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved. He initiated many reforms.

The Soviet Union threatened, but failed, to put nuclear missiles here in 1962; the closest the world ever came to a nuclear war.

First man-made Earth satellite. It was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

Peace treaty in 1978 between Israel and Egypt which ended 30 years of war between the two nations.

Largest & most complex scientific project ever.

Soviet Communist Party secretary, and also later the premier, from 1953-1964.

This nation was split into a democratic western nation and a communist eastern nation after World War II until 1990.

A group of militant Islamic fundamentalists that ruled with brutal religious authority in Afghanistan and harbored terrorists.

U.S.-Russian agreement in 1991 which drastically reduced the amount of nuclear weapons the two nations had left.

Middle Eastern terrorist organization dedicated to establishing Islamic governments based on their beliefs.

Indochinese nationalist that led communist fighters in wars against France and the U.S. from 1946-1969.

Peninsula divided into a communist northern half & democratic southern half after WWII. An unsuccessful war was fought to unite it.

South African policy that legalized racial separation & discrimination. Also, the small white minority ruled over the large black majority.

The U.S. & Soviets reduced the amount of medium and short-range missiles in 1987.

First U.S. space mission to have man land and walk on the moon (1969).

Soviet Communist Party Secretary from 1964-1982.

Present-day Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos; was a French colony; won independence; became communist region after several wars.

Period of an easing of tensions between the U.S. & U.S.S.R. from 1972-1980.

Agreement that ended the French-Indochina War; gave Laos & Cambodia their independence; split Vietnam in two.

Three splinter groups that were more radical than the main Arab anti-Israeli organization in the 1990s and 2000s.

President of Russia during the 1990s.