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| 371871844 | Self determination | The choice for self determination of government in oppressed nations: ex., Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Belarus, etc. during the Cold War. | |
| 371871845 | Cold War development | Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech, Stalinization, de Stalinization, Vietnam War... etc. | |
| 371871846 | Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology; ex., Turkey, Greece. | |
| 371871847 | Marshall Plan | a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) | |
| 371871848 | Containment | The strategy used by NATO to keep Communism from spreading while not attacking communist countries individually. | |
| 371871849 | Denazification | removing any pro-Nazi elements in German society. Also includes the occupations of the UN in Germany after WWII. (American Zone, French Zone, British Zone, Soviet Zone.) | |
| 371871850 | Reparations | Payment by a defeated aggressor nation for damages caused by war. I.e., Germany. | |
| 371871851 | Berlin blockade-airlift | In 1948, Berlin was blocked off by the Soviet Union in order to strangle the Allied forces. In order to combat this, the United States began to airlift supplies into Berlin. | |
| 371871852 | Federal Republic of Germany | West Germany | |
| 371871853 | German Democratic Republic | East Germany. Not ACTUALLY Democratic though... | |
| 371871854 | *Mao Tse Tung | Communist leader of China. | |
| 371871855 | Soviet Union-atom bomb 1949 | On August 29, 1949, the Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb. This stunned the U.S. and other powers because they weren't expecting the Soviets to come out with an atomic bomb. (They thought the Russians were a little backward.) | |
| 371871856 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries | |
| 374529859 | Warsaw Pact | Treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania--all countries under Soviet puppet governments or strong spheres of Soviet influence. | |
| 374529860 | COMECON | the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance; Soviet dominated group that provided resources to Soviet bloc countries; ends in 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union. | |
| 374529861 | CENTO | Alliance designed to prevent Soviet expansion to the south. | |
| 374529862 | SEATO | Alliance formed to oppose Communism in Southeast Asia | |
| 374529863 | Peaceful coexistence | Term used by Khrushchev in 1963 to describe a situation in which the United States and Soviet Union would continue to compete economically and politically without launching a thermonuclear war. | |
| 374529864 | Nikita Khruschchev | Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin who was in power during the Cuban Missile Crisis and for the escalation of the Cold War between the USSR and the US. | |
| 374529865 | Berlin Wall-1961 | Barrier built between East and West Berlin; widely recognized as a symbol of the Cold War. | |
| 374529866 | Cuban Missile Crisis | the 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba | |
| 374529867 | Domino Theory | The political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control. | |
| 374529868 | *Decolonization of Africa | Withdrawal of European nations from Africa that occurred between 1955 and 1965; 35 new countries were established. | |
| 374529869 | *Third World | The region of the world containing a high concentration of underdeveloped or emergent countries. | |
| 374529870 | Satellites | Eastern European countries conquered by the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War. | |
| 374529871 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn's A Day in the Life... | Russian novel. | |
| 374529872 | Destalinization | The process of discrediting and eliminating the political policies, methods, and personal image of Joseph Stalin. | |
| 374529873 | Hungarian Revolution-1956 | Hungarian dissidents had launched a popular uprising to demand democratic reforms, and shortly after, Soviet tanks and troops entered Budapest to crush the uprising and restore an orthodox, pro-Soviet regime. | |
| 374529874 | Leonid Brezhnev | Seized power from Nikita Khrushchev and became leader of the Soviet Communist party in 1964. Ordered forces in to Afghanistan and Czechoslovakia. | |
| 374529875 | Eastern Bloc | Nations favorable to the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe during the cold war-particularly Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, and East Germany | |
| 374529876 | Yugoslavia-Tito | Yugoslavia's leader was Tito. Tito was the leader of the Bosnian genocide of the 90's. | |
| 374529877 | Czechoslovakia-Dubcek | This country had a writer's rebellion that caused the stationed Soviet leader, Antonin Novotny, to resign. He was replaced by the first secretary of the Communist party and introduced numerous reforms. He created "socialism with a human face" during the "Prague Spring" or "spring fever". The period was short-lived when the Soviets invaded, replaced Dubcek, did away with reforms, and reestablished new order. | |
| 374529878 | *France-Fourth Republic | politically unstabe, weak president, failure to gracefully leave Indochina, coalition government | |
| 374529879 | *Charles de Gaulle | French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970) | |
| 374529880 | French Indochina | the French colonies of Cambodia and Laos and Vietnam were formerly organized as French Indochina | |
| 374529881 | Nuclear arms race | the Cold War competition between superpowers to develop more powerful and greater numbers of nuclear weapons | |
| 374529882 | *Great Britain-welfare state | Labour government under Clement Attlee as prime minister nationalized transportation and industry, created social security and socialized medicine, and became the model for many European states after WWII | |
| 374529883 | "permissive society" | a term applied to Western Society after WWII to reflect new sexual freedom and emergence of a drug culture, happened a little in 20's, more after WWII, sex ed in Sweden, decrim of homosexuals, birth control, higher divorce rates, pot, LSD, fostered rebellion from older generations, love-ins | |
| 374529884 | *Suez Crisis-1956 | military attack on Egypt by Britain, France, and Israel beginning on 29 October 1956. The attack followed Egypt's decision of 26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam | |
| 374529885 | European Economic Community (EEC) | The regional trade and economic organization established in Western Europe by the Treaty of Rome in 1958; also known as the Common Market. | |
| 374529886 | Détente | relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals, the Soviet Union and China | |
| 374529887 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe. | |
| 374529888 | ABM Treaty-1972 | Most important Détente treaty in which the US and the Soviet Union agreed to limit antiballistic missiles | |
| 374529889 | Afghanistan-Soviet Invasion-1979 | A nine-year conflict involving Soviet forces supporting the Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan government against the Mujahideen resistance. | |
| 374529890 | Reagan-"Evil Empire" | The term that President Ronald Reagan used to dub the USSR. | |
| 374529891 | SDI-Star Wars | US space defense program. Russian missiles would be detected and shot down from space before they ever reached the US. Now the US could fire back at the Russians and they couldn't do anything about it. EPIC FAIL. | |
| 374529892 | INF Treaty | Reagan and Gorbachev signed this treaty, which provided for the dismantling of all intermediate range nuclear weapons in Russia and all of Europe | |
| 374529893 | Reunification of Germany-1990 | East Germans fled from their country due to the harsh policies of Erich Honecker and, after popular pressure, the East German government opened their borders; this led to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and eventually to elections that allowed for the unification of West and East Germany | |
| 374529894 | Gulf War-United States | a dispute over control of the waterway between Iraq and Iran broke out into open fighting in 1980 and continued until 1988, when they accepted a UN cease-fire resolution | |
| 374529895 | Brezhnev Doctrine | Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any Socialist country whenever they saw the need. | |
| 374529896 | Andrei Sakharov | Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union. | |
| 374529897 | Andropov through Chernenko | Brezhnev died in 1982 and was replaced by Andropov who had been head of KGB but was still a reformer who realized that the state of the economy serious and that corruption within the system was rampant. However, he became ill and eventually died. | |
| 374529898 | Perestroika | A policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society. | |
| 374529899 | Glastnost | Program leading to increased freedom of expression under Mikhail Gorbachev. | |
| 374529900 | Commonwealth of Independent States | An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991 | |
| 374529901 | Chechens | These Muslim people desire a homeland from Russia in the Caucasus mountain region. | |
| 374529902 | Poland-Lech Walesa | "Solidarity" labor union started the whole wave of satellite revolts against communism. Organized massive strikes - government negotiated, allowed first free elections in 1989. Organized the Gdansk Shipyard strike. | |
| 374529903 | Czechoslovakia-Vaclav Havel | This occurred in late 1989. The communist rule of Czechoslovakia quickly dissolved. This was a similar situation to those occurring in other countries of the Eastern Block. Vaclav Havel was the man that lead the forces against the Communist party. His group called the Civic Forum negotiated changes with the government. In late December of 1989 Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia. | |
| 374529904 | East Germany | Communist Soviet controlled area of Germany. Included Berlin, although Berlin was also divided. | |
| 374529905 | Fall of Berlin Wall | 1989 - Beginning of the fall of communism and the Soviet Union - symbolized the failure of communism and massive socialism | |
| 374529906 | Break up of Yugoslavia | Yugoslavia was a country created after World War I and it contained several different ethnic and religious groups. The Soviet Union made it a satellite nation after World War II, making the groups get along. When the USSR collapsed in 1989, the rival groups began to fight as the country broke up into several countries (Serbia, Croatia, etc.). |
