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| 6558553894 | Cold war | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. | 0 | |
| 6558556603 | Eastern bloc | Soviet allies in eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary. | 1 | |
| 6558559033 | Harry Truman | 33rd President of the United States. Led the U.S. to victory in WWII making the ultimate decision to use atomic weapons for the first time. Shaped U.S. foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union after the war. | 2 | |
| 6558642318 | Iron curtain | A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region | 3 | |
| 6558646279 | Marshall plan | A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. | 4 | |
| 6558561151 | North Atlantic treaty organization | In 1949, the United States, Canada, and ten European nations formed this military mutual-defense pact. In 1955, the Soviet Union countered NATO with the formation of the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance among those nations within its own sphere of influence. | 5 | |
| 6558563520 | Warsaw Pact | A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. | 6 | |
| 6558565817 | Welfare state | A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. | 7 | |
| 6558569978 | Technocrat | a new type of bureaucrat trained in the sciences or economics and devoted to the power of national planning; rose to importance in governments after World War II | 8 | |
| 6558571539 | Green movement | Political movement and party that arose in several western European nations in the 1970's that opposed unfettered free market economies and unchecked industrial pollution | 9 | |
| 6558576524 | Margaret Thatcher | prime minister of Britain; strong relationship with Reagan; supported NATO, allowed US to store missiles in England; one of the first Western leaders to act warmly toward reformer Gorbachev | 10 | |
| 6558581462 | Ronald Reagen | American politican and conservative spokesman who served as 40th presidnt of the united states , 1981-1989 | 11 | |
| 6558586909 | European Union | An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members. | 12 | |
| 6558588664 | New Feminism | New wave of women's rights agitation dating from 1949; emphasized more literal equality that would play down domestic roles and qualities for women; promoted specific reforms and redefinition of what it meant to be female | 13 | |
| 6558591699 | Simone de beauvoir and Betty Friedan | two important leaders in the new feminism movement; authors of The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique. | 14 | |
| 6558592734 | Berlin Wall | A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world. | 15 | |
| 6558593831 | Solidarity | Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe. | 16 | |
| 6558596429 | Socialist Realism | Attempt within the USSR to relate formal culture to the masses in order to avoid the adoption of Western European cultural forms; begun under Joseph Stalin; fundamental method of Soviet fiction, art, and literary criticism. | 17 | |
| 6558598559 | Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn | Russian author of works critical of the Soviet regime; included the trilogy on Siberian prison camps, the Gulag Archipelago | 18 | |
| 6558602027 | Nikia Khrushchev | Soviet premier who came to power in 1953 and sent nuclear missiles to cuba | 19 | |
| 6558654476 | Sputnik | First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race. | 20 |
