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Nikita Khrushev
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Member of the Soviet communist party who came to power after Stalin's death.
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Succeeded Khrushchev as leader of the communist party in the Soviet Union.
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John F. Kennedy
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U.S president during the Cuban Missile crisis.
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Lyndon Johnson
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Became president after John F. Kennedy was assented.
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Detente
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U.S policy of lessening the Cold War tensions by backing away from direct confrontation with the Soviet Union.
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Richard M. Nixon
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U.S president whose policies grew out of a philosophy of realpolitik.
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SALT
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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
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Ronald Reagan
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Anti-communism U.S president who took office in 1981.
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