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Romania
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a postwar satellite country in eastern europe
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Nikita Khrushchev
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member of the soviet communist party who came to power after stalin's death
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Imre Nagy
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communist leader who formed a new government in hungary
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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event that caused khrushchev to lose prestige in the soviet union
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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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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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soviet dissident who won the 1970 nobel prize for literature
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John F. Kennedy
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US president during the cuban missile crisis
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Lyndon Johnson
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became president after john kennedy was assassinated
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Detente
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US policy of lessening cold war tensions by backing away from direct confrontation with the soviet union
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Richard Nixon
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US 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 US president who took office in 1981
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