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143545662Eastern BlocSoviet allies in Eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Czechosolvakia, Romania, and Hungary0
143545663Warsaw PactSoviet Response to NATO; members part of the Eastern Bloc1
143545664Harry TrumanU.S. President after FDR in the early years of the cold war. His foreign policy was to contain Communism through diplomacy and military strength2
143545665Iron CurtainTerm coined by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to describe the political division of Europe between free (W. Europe) and represed (Eastern Europe) during the cold war3
143545666Marshall PlanU.S. aid to western Europe after WWII helped it recover and concurrently staved off Communist inroads made in the interim4
143545667NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization. U.S. led alliance including western Europe, Canada, and Turkey against Soviet aggression there, now includes some former communist countries of E.Europe5
143545668Welfare StateState-run "cradle to grave" care that developed in western Europe and spread in varying forms to the U.S. Canada, Ausralia, and New Zealand6
143545669TechnocratA type of bureaucrat in this era who often had training in engineering or economics, hired to support the welfare state buerucracy7
143545670Green MovementPolitical movement and party that arose in several western European nations in the 1970's that opposed unfettered free market economies and unchecked industrial pollution8
143545671European CommunityFinal name of the Common Market; an economic and, later, political movement in Europe that supported free markets to compete with the U.S. ad eventually, the goal of forming a common government in much of Europe9
143545672New FeminismA wave of women's rights agitation reappeared n the 1960's promting job opportunites and other civil rights issues for women. Two early leaders were Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan10
143545673Berlin WallBarrier built by the USSR in 1961 in E. Germany to keep that nation's subjects from fleeing to liberty in W. Berlin. Major cold war symbol until it was torn down in 198911
143545674SolidarityTrade union movement in Poland that developed into a political pressure group that supported reforms from the Communist leadership12
143545675Aleksandr SolzhentsynSoviet writer of anti-Communist expose "The Gulag Archipelago" who was exiled to the West; he later returned to Russia after the fall of the USSR13
143545676Nikita KhrushchevLeader of the USSR after Stalin's death Criticized his predecessor's abuses, signaling a bit of a thaw in the cold war. After backing down in the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was removed from power and exiled within the USSR14
143545677ZapatistasGuerilla movement named in honor of Emiliano Zapata; originated in 1994 in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas; government responded with a combination of repression and negotiation15
143545678Third WorldAlso known as developing nationsl nations outside the capatalist industrial nations of the first world and the industrilized cmmunist nations of the second world; generally less economically powerful, but with varied economies16
143545679United Nations...17
143545680Cold War...18
143545681World Bank...19
143545682Truman Doctrine...20
143545683Korean War...21
143545684Vietnam War...22
143545685Cuban missile crisis...23
143545686Helsinki Accords...24
143545687nonaligned nations...25
143545688Cultural Revolution (China)...26
143545689OPECOrganization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.27
143545690proxy wars...28
143545691Salvador Allende...29
143545692Dirty War...30
143545693Sandinistas...31
143545694Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...32
143545695Saddam Husain...33
143545696neo-liberalism...34
143545697keiretsu...35
143545698Asian Tigers...36
143545699newly industrialized economies (NIEs)...37
143545700Deng Xiaoping...38
143545701Tiananmen Square...39
143545702Mikhail Gorbachev...40
143545703perestroika...41
143545704Thomas Malthus...42
143545705demographic transition...43
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