ABM |
Antiballistic Missiles |
AK |
Armia Krajowa—Home Army (Poland) |
ANC |
African National Congress (South Africa) |
APEC |
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
ASEAN |
Association of Southeastern Asian Nations |
Benelux |
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg |
CCP |
Chinese Communist Party |
CDU |
Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands—Christian Democratic Union (Germany) |
CFM |
Council of Foreign Ministers (Britain, China, France, United States, USSR) |
CHR |
Commission on Human Rights (UN) |
CGDK |
Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) |
CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency (United States) |
Comecon |
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (USSR-directed, sometimes referred to as CMEA) |
Cominform |
Communist Information Bureau |
Comintern |
Communist International |
CSCE |
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe |
EEC |
European Economic Community |
ETIM |
East Turkestan Islamic Movement |
EU |
European Union |
Freie Demokratische Partei—Free Democratic Party (Germany) |
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FLN |
Front de Libération Nationale—National Liberation Front (Algeria) |
FNLA |
Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola—Front for the National Liberation of Angola |
FRELIMO |
Frente de Libertação de Moçambique—Mozambique Liberation Front |
FRG |
Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) |
GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
GDR |
German Democratic Republic (East Germany) |
ICBM |
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
INF |
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces |
KAL |
Korean Air Lines |
KFOR |
Kosovo Force (NATO) |
KGB |
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti—Committee for State Security (USSR) |
KLA |
Kosovo Liberation Army |
KOR |
Komitet Obrony Robotników—The Workers’ Defense Committee (Poland) |
MAD |
Mutual Assured Destruction |
Mercosur |
Mercado Común del Sur—Common Market of the South (South America) |
MPLA |
Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola—Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola |
NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
NPT |
Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons |
NSC-68 |
National Security Council paper number 68 |
OAS |
Organization of American States |
OPEC |
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries |
OSCE |
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Successor to CSCE) |
PCNL |
Polish Committee of National Liberation (Polish: Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego, PKWN) also known as Lublin Committee |
PFLP |
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
Palestine Liberation Organization |
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PRC |
People’s Republic of China |
PRK |
People’s Republic of Kampuchea (Cambodia) |
RENAMO |
Resistência Nacional Moçambicana—Mozambican National Resistance |
SAC |
South African Communist Party |
SALT |
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty |
SAM |
Surface-to-Air Missile |
SDI |
Strategic Defense Initiative |
SDP |
Social Democratic Party (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD), Germany |
SEATO |
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization |
SORT |
Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty |
START |
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
Stasi |
Ministerium für Staatssicherheit—Ministry for State Security (GDR) |
SWAPO |
Southwest Africa People’s Organization (Namibia) (Afrikaans: Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volk-Organisasie, SWAVO) |
UDHR |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
UK |
United Kingdom |
UN |
United Nations |
UNITA |
União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola—National Union for the Total Independence of Angola |
UNPROFOR |
United Nations Protection Force (Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina) |
USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |