358211551 | Balfour Declaration (1917) | British promise of support for the establishment of Jewish settlement in Palestine. | 0 | |
358211552 | socialism in one country | Stalin's concept of Russian communism based solely upon internal Soviet development; the resulting isolation helped the Soviet Union to avoid some of the consequences of the Great depression. | 1 | |
358211553 | anschluss | union between Germany and Austria under Hitler in 1938. | 2 | |
358211555 | Appeasement | name given to the policy of British leader Neville Chamberlain because of his acceptance at the Munich Conference of German aggression. | 3 | |
358211556 | Munich conference | 1938 meeting between German, French, and British leaders; allowed Czechoslovakia to be dismembered by Germany in return for promises of future peace. | 4 | |
358211557 | Vichy | collaborationist French government established at Vichy in 1940 following defeat by Germany. | 5 | |
358211558 | eastern block | the eastern European countries of Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Eastern Germany dominated by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. | 6 | |
358211559 | iron curtain | term coined by Churchill for the division between the Western and Soviet spheres. | 7 | |
358211560 | Marshall Plan | United States program begun in 1947 to help Western European nations recover from the devastation of World War II. | 8 | |
358211561 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; formed in 1949 to counter the threat of Soviet Union; included western European democracies, Canada, and the United States. | 9 | |
358211562 | Warsaw Pact | the Soviet response to NATO; made up of Soviets and their European satellites. | 10 | |
358211563 | nonalignment | newly independent former colonial nations who proclaimed neutrality during the Cold War. | 11 |
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