Euro Unit 10 IDs A
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julbarnett on April 16, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Marshall Plan | US program of providing econ. aid to Euro after WWII |
| Truman Doctrine | Truman's policy of providing econ and mil aid to any country threatened by comm or totalitarian ideology |
| Containment | US foreign policy adopted by Truman in the late 1940s, in which the US tried to stop the spread of comm by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist USSR advances |
| Deutsche Mark | Currency introduced in WG which was better and made EG mad, sparked the Berlin Blockade |
| Berlin Blockade | USSR attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy, high point in the Cold War, led to the Berlin Airlift. |
| Berlin Airlift | Joint effort by the US and Brit to fly food and supplies into W.Berlin after USSR blocked off all ground routes into the city |
| West Germany (FRG) | Federal Republic of Germany, 3 sectors: F, Brit, US they all combined to form one democratic sector, Capital: Bonn |
| East Germany (GDR) | German Democratic Republic, Controlled by USSR, created less than a month after FRG, Capital: East Berlin |
| Adenauer | Leader of West Germany: strong economy and many social programs. Conservative keeps liberal programs, "Economic Miracle" |
| Ulbricht | Leader of East Germany: German Democratic Republic |
| Cominform | USSR organization whose purpose was to denounce Marshall Plan aid and spread comm worldwide |
| Comecon | Council for Mutual Economic Assistance; Soviet dominated group that provided resources to Soviet bloc countries |
| NATO | Alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries |
| Warsaw Pact | Treaty signed in 1945 formed an alliance of the E.Euro countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania |
| Stalinization | The spread of Stalin's policies. 5 year plans, industrialization, collectivization, one party dictatorships and repression. Dissatisfaction later led to revolts. |
| Khrushchev | Soviet leader, publicly denounced Stalin, free many political prisoners eased censorship, gave a secret speech |
| Destalinization | Khrushchev's policy of purging the Soviet Union of Stalin's memory; monuments of Stalin were destroyed; Stalin's body was moved outside the Kremlin Wall; Khrushchev did this because he disliked Stalin for jailing and killing loyal Soviet citizens |
| Revolts in E. Europe '53, '56, '68 | All inspired by Khrushchev's criticisms of Stalin and the general thaw happening. Wanted more freedom, and a better standard of living. |
| Berlin Wall | Refugees from EG fled to WG, reflected USSR's inability to control E Euro, so a wall was constructed on border btwn W&E Berlin |
| Brezhnev Doctrine | Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need (if comm threatened...) |
| W. Germany's Economic Miracle | Used hard work and Marshall Plan to rebuild econ, new immigrants worked hard to help build econ, management and labor work together to avoid social conflict, and by 1955 their GNP exceeded pre-war GNP and their employment dropped from 8% in 1950 to .4% in 1960 |
| Britain's Labour Reforms | Labor party instated expensive welfare state. Nationalized the Bank of England, coal, steel, transportation, and utilities industry, instated National Insurance Act and National Health Service, Act in 1946 provided social security and national medical care, also dismantled empire and reduced military spending |
| France's 4th and 5th Republics | Algerian independence and Charles de Gaulle |
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