 | Term | Definition |
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Joseph McCarthy |
Senator from Wisconsin who questioned the loyalty of many government officials |
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Nikita Khruschev |
Succeeded Stalin and became the Soviet premier |
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Cold War |
Conflict between Communists and non-Communists |
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Welfare State |
Nation in which the government controls welfare of its citizens |
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Security Council of the United Nations |
Five major powers, or the Allied powers prevented the Council from taking action by veto power |
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Nuremberg Trials |
A trial met at Nuremberg, Germany, charging 22 of the Nazi leaders |
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Recession |
Temporary period of time with less employment |
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Charles de Gaulle |
First president of the Fifth Republic of France and he ended the Algeria war |
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George Marshall |
Secretary of United States who created the Marshall Plan which helped Europe recover from the war |
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Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka |
Case that resulted in black children to attend separate schools |
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Warsaw Pact |
Alliance formed by European communist countries in which they agreed to supply troops |
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NATO(North American Treaty Organization) |
Alliance formed by Western nations to deter any Soviet drive to the West |
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
Used nonviolent methods during the civil rights movement in the United States |
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Truman Doctrine |
President Truman set up this doctrine to help defend Greece and Turkey for communist aggression |
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The Prague Spring |
Czechoslovakia began a program of reform which was quickly ended by the Soviet Union |
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The European Economic Community(EEC) |
6 European nations signed the Treaty of Rome which eventually ended tariffs |
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Market Economy |
Economy in which competition determines the value of goods |
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Command Economy |
Economy in which the government makes all the government decisions |
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Cominform |
Soviet organization whose purpose was to denounce Marshall Plan aid |
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NAACP(The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) |
Organization that helped black Americans find employment and secure civil rights |
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St. Lawrence Seaway |
United States and Canada built this seaway which linked to the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean |
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East Germany |
Country that built the Berlin Wall to prevent refugees |
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Denazification |
Allies formed a policy that removed former Nazis |
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The Berlin Blockade |
Soviets blockaded the East Germany border land and water traffic into Berlin |
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The Berlin Airlift |
United States and Great Britain organized airlifts to transport food into West Berlin |
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Nations that were imported quotas from the EEC |
France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg |
