EUH1001 part 2 Alliances
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Allied Powers | British Empire, Soviet Union, United States. The "Grand Alliance" |
| Axis Powers | In World War II, the alliance of Germany, Italy, and later Japan |
| NATO | military alliance, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to provide mutual assistance should any member be attacked. Formed 1949. France withdrew in 1966 because they refused to put French troops under US control. |
| NATO | An organization founded in 1949, the members of which signed a defense pact to protect those countries bordering the North Atlantic. |
| NATO | This organization was formed after WWII to act as a collective security umbrella for Western Europe against perceived Soviet block aggression. |
| Pan-African Federation | Organized by Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Jomo Kenyata of Kenya, which promoted African nationalism. They denounced situation of African dependence as neocolonialism. In a period of mass political demands for liberation/decolonization of Africa. |
| Quadruple Alliance | (1815) Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia to protect against future French aggression and preserve the status quo. |
| Quadruple Alliance | Pact signed in 1815 by the four powers who defeated Napoleon - Great Britain, Austria, Russia and Prussia - for the purpose of protecting Europe against future French aggression. |
| The Big Three | Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin; leaders who met between 1943 and 1945 to coordinate attacks on Germany and Japan, and later to discuss plans for postwar Europe and settlement of Germany. After the war, their armies occupied Germany, each with a separate zone, although governed as a single economic unit. |
| The Big Three | The British, Soviet, and US leaders who coordinated defeat of Germany and Japan in WWII and negotiated post war settlements. Referred to Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt until 1945; Attlee, Stalin and Truman by summer 1945. |
| Three Emperors League | Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia's emperors formed 1873; the three most conservative powers of Europe. Formed by Otto-von Bismarck to deal with Germany's threat of encirclement. Austria's challenge was internal cultural diversity. Russia's economic prosperity was vulnerable to whoever controlled the Bosporus seaports for trade. |
| Triple Alliance | Alliance joining Italy to Germany and Austria-Hungary. Lasted until 1914. |
| Triple Alliance | An alliance founded in 1882 between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy at Germany's instigation for the purpose of securing mutual support on the European continent. |
| Triple Entente | Alliance joining Great Britain, France and Russia. |
| Triple Entente | Alliance founded in 1907 between France, Britain, and Russia. With the defection of Russia from the Three Emperor's League, it hemmed in Germany on both eastern and western borders. |
| Warsaw Pact | defensive alliance of soviet-allied states which the USSR intended would serve as a strategic buffer zone against NATO forces. |
| Warsaw Pact | Defenseive alliance organization formed in 1955 by Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, and the Soviet Union. The alliance served as a strategic buffer zone against NATO forces. |
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