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| 6366986556 | Cold War | The state of relations between the US and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies between the end of WWII and 1990, based on creation of political spheres of influence and a nuclear arms race rather than actual warfare | 0 | |
| 6366986557 | Eastern Bloc | Nations favorable to the Soviet Union in eastern Europe during the Cold War- particularly Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and East Germany | 1 | |
| 6366986558 | Harry Truman | American president from 1945 to 1952, less eager for smooth relations with the Soviet Union than Franklin Roosevelt, authorized use of the atomic bomb during WWII, architect of American diplomacy that initiated the Cold War | 2 | |
| 6366986559 | iron curtain | Phrase coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between free and communist societies taking shape in Europe after 1946 | 3 | |
| 6366986560 | Marshall Plan | Program of substantial loans initiated by the US in 1947, designed to aid nations in rebuilding from the war's devastation, vehicle for American economic dominance | 4 | |
| 6366986561 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | Created in 1949 under US leadership to group most of the western European powers plus Canada in a defensive alliance against possible Soviet aggression | 5 | |
| 6366986562 | Warsaw Pact | Alliance organization by Soviet Union with its eastern European satellites to balance formation of NATO by Western powers in 1949 | 6 | |
| 6366986563 | welfare state | New activism of the western European state in economic policy and welfare issues after WWII, introduced programs to reduce the impact of economic inequality, typically included medical programs and economic planning | 7 | |
| 6366986564 | technocrat | New type of bureaucrat, intensely trained in engineering or economics and devoted to the power of national planning, came to fore in offices of governments following WWII | 8 | |
| 6366986565 | Green movement | Political parties, especially in Europe, focusing on environmental issues and control over economic growth | 9 | |
| 6366986566 | 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 intergration | 10 | |
| 6366986567 | new feminism | New wave of women's rights agitation dating from 1949, emphasized more literal equality that would play down domestic roles and qualitites for women, promoted specific reforms and redefinition of what it meant to be female | 11 | |
| 6366986568 | 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 the end of the Cold War in 1991 | 12 | |
| 6366986569 | Solidarity | Polish labor movement formed in the 1970s under Lech Walesa, challenged USSR-dominated government of Poland | 13 | |
| 6366986570 | Aleksandr Solzhrnitsyn | Russian author critical of the Soviet Union regime but also of Western materialism, published trilogy on the Siberian prison camps, The Gulag Archipelago (1978) | 14 | |
| 6366986571 | Nikita Khrushchev | Stalin's successor as head of the USSR from 1953 to 1964, attacked Stalinism in 1956 for concentration of power and arbitrary dictatorship, failure of Siberian development program and antagonism of Stalinists led to downfall | 15 |
