African National Congress (ANC)

Al-Qaeda

Angolan Civil War

Apartheid

Arms race

Berlin Airlift

Berlin Blockade

Brinkmanship

Capitalism

Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Civil disobedience

Civil Rights Movement

Collectivization

Collapse of the Soviet Union

Cold War

Command economy

Communes

Communism

Contras

Containment

Cuban Missile Crisis

Decolonization

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

Diaspora

Economic weakness

Five-Year Plans

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Glasnost

Gold Coast (Ghana)

Great Leap Forward

Ho Chi Minh

Ideological conflict

Indian National Congress (INC)

Indira Gandhi

Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)

Iron Curtain

Jawaharlal Nehru

Julius Nyerere

Korean War

Kuomintang (KMT)

Land redistribution

Long March

Mahatma Gandhi

Mao Zedong

Marshall Plan

Martin Luther King Jr.

Military-industrial complex

Mikhail Gorbachev

Muslim League

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

Nationalism

Nationalization

NATO

Nelson Mandela

Nonviolent resistance

Nuclear deterrence

Nuclear proliferation

People’s Republic of China (PRC)

Perestroika

Partition of India

Postcolonial state

Proxy war

Redrawn political boundaries

Sandinistas

Salt March

Satyagraha

Self-determination

Shining Path

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Socialism

Space Race

Sphere of influence

State-led development

Superpower

Suez Crisis

Truman Doctrine

Ujamaa

Vietnam War

Warsaw Pact