| ArabIsraeliconflict | | AKA six day war |
| PragueSpring | | US airforce attack on April 15th 1986 |
| HungarianRevolution | | Also known as the "German hold-up" (24 June 1948 – 11 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War |
| Contras | | The final act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe |
| StarWars | | A spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Stalinist government of Hungary |
| pingpongdiplomacy | | The high point of tensions in the Cold War |
| BerlinWall | | Aimed to promote economic and cultural cooperation between African and Asian nations |
| KoreanWar | | Another name for Strategic Defense Initiative |
| AfghanWar | | A 9 year conflict resulting in the Taliban coming into power |
| VietNamWar | | The USSR's response to NATO |
| WarsawPact | | A first attempt at reducing Nuclear weapons |
| BandungConference | | The game of chicken on a global military level |
| PartialTestBanTreaty | | politically motivated practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence |
| SALTone | | The USA's policy of not allowing communism to spread |
| MarshallPlan | | A competition between two or more parties for real or apparent military supremacy |
| containment | | The primary plan of the United States for rebuilding Western Europe |
| HelsinkiAccord | | A second attempt at reducing Nuclear weapons |
| CubanMissileCrisis | | Dubeck's reforms in Czechloslovakia that the USSR didn't allow |
| COMECON | | This decended across the middle of Europe closing off the USSR |
| ArmsRace | | Nations who refused to send athletes to the sporting events in 1980 and 1984 |
| IronCurtain | | A period where US and Chinese ping pong players back and forth to soften tensions |
| dominotheory | | This seperated East and West halfs of the German capital |
| BerlinAirlift | | Conflict in mid Africa from 1993 to 1994 |
| TrumanDoctrine | | PTBT |
| NATO | | During this war if you crossed the 38th paralell you would be in big trouble |
| Olympicboycotts | | A treaty between the USA and the USSR on the Reduction of Strategic Offensive Arms. |
| NicaraguanCivilWar | | The military equivalent to to this was the Warsaw Pact |
| Utwo | | French for Relaxation |
| START | | Member states of this agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. |
| BrezhnevDoctrine | | First ever man made satilite |
| BerlinBlockade | | The ability for people to live together without war |
| Grenadainvasion | | Western Allies flying supplies into Brilin |
| SALTtwo | | A spyplane used in the Cold War |
| peacefulcoexistence | | This speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow |
| détente | | Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury this was frowened upon by the United Nations |
| brinkmanship | | is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing Nicaragua's FSLN |
| Libyanbombing | | A south Asain conflict lasting from 1959-1975 |
| McCarthyism | | This was announced to retroactively justify the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia |
| Sputnik | | A set of principles of U.S. foreign policy saying the United States must support freedom-loving peoples wherever communism threatened them |
