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Sov. - Tianan. Mateo
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Soviet Coup Attempt (1991) | A failed attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979) | The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan began on December 24, 1979, when the Soviet Union sent troops into its Central Asian neighbor to support a struggling socialist government. |
| Space Race | The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations. |
| "Speech of Hope" | "Restatement of Policy on Germany", or the "Speech of Hope", is a speech given by James F. Byrnes, the US Secretary of State, in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946. |
| Stalinism | Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. |
| Stasi | The Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the Stasi, was the state security service and secret police of East Germany from 1950 to 1990. |
| Strategic Defense Initiative | The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed U.S. missile defense system announced by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, aiming to create a "space-based shield" to protect against nuclear attacks during the Cold War. |
| Suez Crisis | The Suez Crisis, also known as the second Arab–Israeli war, the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956. |
| Taiwan Straits Crisis (First and Second) | The Taiwan Strait Crisis refers to two major confrontations in the 1950s between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) over control of offshore islands in the Taiwan Strait. |
| Tbilisi Riots (1956) | The 1956 Georgian demonstrations, also known as the March 1956 events or the Tbilisi riots, were a series of protests against Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy which took place in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union. |
| Tet Offensive | What happened in the Tet Offensive's first 36 hours The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces across South Vietnam, beginning on January 30, 1968, during the Tet holiday, which was a failure militarily. |
| The (Krushchev) Thaw | Khrushchev's thaw opened the Soviet society to a degree that allowed some foreign movies, books, art and music. Some previously banned writers and composers, such as Anna Akhmatova and Mikhail Zoshchenko, among others, were brought back to public life. |
| The Day After (1983) | In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. |
| Third World | "Third World" historically referred to non-aligned nations during the Cold War but now broadly describes developing countries facing economic instability, high poverty, and a lack of basic necessities. |
| Tiananmen Square Massacre (1970) | Tiananmen Square incident, series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on the night of June 3–4 with a government crackdown on the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. |
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