Ch. 30-The Cold War
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Potsdam Conference | Meeting of the Big Three where Truman insisted that Stalin allow free elections in Eastern Europe.Stalin resisted. |
| Truman Doctrine | The USA will intervene anywhere there is a threat of communism-also called containment |
| Teheran Conference | Meeting of the Big Three to discuss the shape of the postwar world. |
| French decolonization | enhanced economic and cultural ties with former colonies |
| Manhattan Project | USA effort to develop the atomic bomb |
| Israel | Homeland for Jews established after the British left Palestine in 1948 |
| Truman | President in office during the outbreak of the Korean War |
| Treaty of Rome | conference that created the European Common Market |
| Nixon | American President who gradually reduced American involvement in the Vietnam War |
| economic and technological transformation | reasons for changes in the structure of European society after WWII |
| 5th Republic | Government established by Charles DeGaulle in France after WWII |
| Growth of Middle Class | attributed to increased demand for technologists and managers |
| Humane communism | version of government championed by rebels in Czechoslovakia |
| Tet Offensive | Invasion of South Vietnam by the communists that was interpreted as a defeat by most Americans even though USA won |
| Gandhi | Indian leader who preached non-violent "non-cooperation" |
| Helsinki Agreement | represented respect for human rights and recognition of existing political boundaries |
| Mao Zedong | led communist followers in 5000 mile march and towards victory over the nationalists in China |
| Ho Chi Minh | led Vietnamese to victory over French in 1954 |
| Suez Canal Company | nationalized by Egyptian leader, Nasser, thereby prompting conflict with Britain and France |
| Brezhnev Doctrine | stated that the Soviet Union had the right to intervene if any socialist country was bothered |
| Neocolonialism | exerting control over a former colony with economics and culture |
| Espionage | Spying |
| Proxy War | fighting a war by supplying another country but not acitively participating with your own troops |
| Berlin | German city blockaded by Soviets but saved by an airlift by the Allies |
| Yalta Conference | 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war |
| Willy Brandt | West German chancellor; sought peace and reconciliation with East Germany and Poland |
| Simone Beauvoir | He is a French writer who wrote about the social status of the women in the western societies. In 1949, he wrote about how even though women began to have changes in the world, they will never have them same status as the men. |
| Betty Friedan | American Feminist, writer of The Feminine Mystique, cofounded NOW |
| Margaret Thatcher | leader of the British Conservative party, prime minister, she made easy credit available for business and home buyers. |
| Francois Mitterand | 1981; French Socialist; President of France who tried to revive the economy by nationalizing private companies and banks and increasing wages and other social benefits |
| Czechoslovakia Reform | led by Alexander Dubcek, tried to produce "socialism with a human face", but put down by the Soviets in 1968 |
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