events of the Cold War {Ans: nuclear arms race, proxy wars, space race, Iron Curtain, Berlin Wall, Korean War, Vietnam War, Soviets in Afghanistan}Allied Powers (Triple Entente) {Ans: Great Britain, France, Russia and USA during WWII}Battle of Midway {Ans: 1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific}nuclear deterrence {Ans: the military doctrine that an enemy will be deterred/stopped from using nuclear weapons as long as he can be destroyed as a consequence; MAD (mutually assured destruction)}refugee {Ans: A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster}Mikhail Gorbachev {Ans: Soviet leader of the 1980s who worked with President Reagan to end the Cold War; he was the last Soviet Communist leader and attempted many reforms}