Abc's of the cold war??

Question:i need a list of cold war terms or events..things that happend from the start of the cold war up until 1990..having trouble coming up with an event for each letter..can anyone help me out??

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COLD WAR GLOSSARY:

ABM - Antiballistic missiles, designed to detect and intercept incoming nuclear missiles.

Arms race - Competitive buildup of nuclear weapons between the United States and Soviet Union that began after the Soviets exploded their first atomic weapon on August 29, 1949 -- ending the U.S. nuclear monopoly.

Berlin airlift - Successful effort by the United States and Britain to ship by air 2.3 million tons of supplies to the residents of the Western-controlled sectors of Berlin from June 1948 to May 1949, in response to a Soviet blockade of all land and canal routes to the divided city.

Broken arrow - Any incident that includes the seizure, theft, loss or accidental destruction of a nuclear device.

Checkpoint Charlie - Border site between East and West Berlin where U.S. and Soviet tanks faced each other in a tense standoff in October 1961 before both sides withdrew.

CIA - Central Intelligence Agency, established in 1947 by Truman; conducts U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence missions overseas.

DEFCON - System of defense conditions used by the U.S. military, ranging from DEFCON 5, the lowest state of alert, to DEFCON 1, indicating war.

Detente - A thaw in Cold War relations between the United States and Soviet Union from 1969-1975, highlighted by the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) treaty and the Helsinki Accords.

Eisenhower Doctrine - Pledge by Eisenhower in 1957 to provide military and economic aid to any Middle Eastern country fighting communism.

Fallout shelter - Underground concrete structures, often stocked with food and water supplies, designed to withstand fallout from a nuclear attack; popular in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.

First strike capability - The capacity to launch a nuclear strike without fear of a nuclear counterattack from the enemy; the United States enjoyed first strike capability over the Soviet Union until the late 1950s.

GDR - German Democratic Republic, or East Germany; it was proclaimed in October 1949 and encompassed the Soviet occupation zone in postwar Germany.

Geneva Agreement - Signed by the Soviet Union, United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan in 1988, it called on the Soviets to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan by February 1989.

Hot line - Direct phone line between Washington and Moscow established after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Hungarian Revolution - Mass uprising that began with reformist efforts by Hungarian Communist Party leader Imre Nagy; crushed by Soviet troops and tanks November 3-4, 1956.

ICBM - Intercontinental ballistic missiles; land-based nuclear weapons with a range of more than 3,500 miles.

Iron Curtain - Term used by Churchill in 1946 to describe the growing East-West divide in postwar Europe between communist and democratic nations.

Jupiter - Class of U.S. intermediate-range ballistic missiles developed in the 1950s by a team led by Wernher Von Braun, who developed V-1 and V-2 rockets for Nazi Germany.

KGB - Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security, former USSR)

KOMSOMOL - Communist organization for Soviet youths aged 14 to 28; patterned after the Communist Party, its goals were to indoctrinate and train future members.

Limited Test Ban Treaty - 1963 agreement signed by the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union that prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, space and underwater.

MAD - Mutual assured destruction, a Cold War theory in which the United States and Soviet Union each used its ability to launch a nuclear counterattack to deter a first strike from the other side.

McCarthyism - U.S. campaign to root out communists in government and society during the late 1940s and 1950s led by Sen. Joseph McCarthy; accusations were often based on rumors and half-truths.

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization, begun in 1949 as a military and political alliance of European nations and the United States and Canada designed to protect Western Europe from a Soviet attack.

NORAD - Formed in 1958 by the United States and Canada and based in Colorado, the North American Aerospace Defense Command monitors the skies for an attack on the continent.

Open Skies - Proposal by Eisenhower to let the superpowers see each other's military blueprints and installations and place reconnaissance units in each other's territory. Khrushchev's rejection led to the U.S. deployment of the U-2 spy plane.

Ostpolitik - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's "Eastern Policy" of improving ties with Soviet bloc nations; it led to treaties with Poland, the Soviet Union and East Germany and won Brandt the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971.

Perestroika - Gorbachev's policy of economic restructuring in the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

Politburo - Executive committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Quiet Diplomacy - This is what is traditionally practiced by professional diplomats, normally those regularly accredited to governments in foreign capitals.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - Started by the United States in the early 1950s in an effort to reach the people of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the service moved its headquarters from Munich to Prague in 1995 and now transmits 700 hours of programming weekly in 23 languages.

Refusniks - Soviet Jews and others who were denied exit visas and were persecuted for trying to leave the U.S.S.R.

SALT - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in the late 1960s and '70s that led to the signing of the SALT accords in 1972 by Nixon and Brezhnev; SALT I limited each country's ballistic missile defense and froze the deployment of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launchers.

Stasi - East German secret police; it kept files on 5 million East Germans -- a third of the population -- and infiltrated the West German military and government.

Trapos - Transport police in East Berlin who helped seal the border with West Berlin in August 1961.

TU-95 - Soviet jet bomber capable of delivering a nuclear device to the United States; 10 of the bombers were displayed for the West at the 1955 Moscow Air Show.

U-2 - Spy plane capable of taking pictures from as high as 80,000 feet; it was heavily used for U.S. intelligence gathering before the development of satellite reconnaissance in the 1970s.

Velvet Revolution - Mass protests in Czechoslovakia, led by playwright Vaclev Havel, that culminated in the fall of communism in that country in November 1989.

Vladivostok - Signed by Ford and Brezhnev in 1974, the Vladivostok accords set a limit of 2,400 for the total offensive nuclear weapons each side could possess.

Warsaw Pact - Soviet-led Eastern European defense organization established in Warsaw, Poland, on May 14, 1955; the alliance countered the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Yalta - Second meeting of the Big Three leaders, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt; they met in the southern Russian town of Yalta February 4-11, 1945, to discuss the occupation of postwar Germany and Eastern Europe.

Zero Option - Western German peace movement proposal -- later adopted by the Reagan administration -- that called for the ban of all European intermediate-range nuclear forces.

Nakita Kruschev was the "president" of Russia during the cold was and one thing I remember was he got so mad at some meeting he took off his shoe and started pounding on a table, I know that is weird, but I have never forgotten it. It would be like the US President doing that !