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| 151100067 | Berlin Wall | Built in 1961 to halt the flow of immigration from East Berlin to West Berlin; immigration was in response to lack of consumer goods and close Soviet control of economy and politics; torn down at end of cold war in 1991 | |
| 151100068 | Common Market | International organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members | |
| 151100069 | containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world | |
| 151100070 | eastern bloc | Nations favorable to the Soviet Union in eastern Europe during the cold war-particularly Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and East Germany | |
| 151100071 | European Union | Began as European Economic Community (or Common Market), an alliance of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, to create a single economic entity across national boundaries in 1958; later joined by Britain, Ireland, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Finland, and other nations for further European economic integration | |
| 151100072 | Harry Truman | American president from 1945-1952; less eager for smooth relations with the Soviet Union than Franklin Roosevelt; authorized use of atomic bomb during World War II; architect of American diplomacy that initiated the cold war | |
| 151100073 | iron curtain | Phrase coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between free and communist societies taking shape in Europe after 1946 | |
| 151100074 | Marshall Plan | Program of susbstantial loans initiated by the United States in 1947; designed to aid Western nations in rebuilding from the war's devastation; vehicle for American economic dominance | |
| 151100075 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | NATO; created in 1949 under United States leadership to group most of the western European powers plus Canada in a defensive alliance against possible Soviet aggression | |
| 151100076 | Nikita Khruschev | Stalin's successor as head of USSR; attacked Stalinism in 1956 for concentration of power and arbritary dictatorship; failure of Siberian development program and antagonism of Stalinists led to downfall | |
| 151100077 | Solidarity | Polish labor movement formed in 1970s under Lech Walesa; challenged USSR-dominated government of Poland | |
| 151100078 | Warsaw Pact | Alliance organized by Soviet Union with its eastern European satellites to balance formation of NATO by Western powers in 1949 | |
| 151100079 | welfare state | New activism of the western-European state in economic policy and welfare issues after World War II; introduced programs to reduce the impact of economic inequality; typically included medical programs and economic planning |
