AP World History: Ch. 32 Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War, Pt. 1 Flashcards
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| 9310678953 | Cold War | State of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc; 1947-1991 |  | 0 |
| 9310685094 | eastern bloc | Communist regimes in eastern Europe including Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and others. |  | 1 |
| 9310701207 | Harry Truman | Assumed office following the death of President Franklin Roosevelt. In the White House from 1945 to 1953, Truman made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan, helped rebuild postwar Europe, worked to contain communism. |  | 2 |
| 9310708238 | iron curtain | Boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." ~Churchill |  | 3 |
| 9310739849 | Containment | A geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as a Cold War foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism. |  | 4 |
| 9310744047 | Marshall Plan | American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $140 billion in 2017 dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. |  | 5 |
| 9310747531 | NATO | Intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949 |  | 6 |
| 9310753408 | Warsaw Pact | Formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states. |  | 7 |
| 9310763052 | "nuclear umbrella" | Along with economic aid, nuclear threat heightened the leverage the United States had in foreign policy throughout Europe; the supposed protection gained from an alliance with a country possessing nuclear weapons. |  | 8 |
| 9310779291 | West Germany | Federal Republic of Germany in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990 |  | 9 |
| 9310785074 | East Germany | German Democratic Republic, was a communist state in Central Europe, during the Cold War period. It described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state." | 10 | |
| 9310791498 | welfare state | A concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the social and economic well-being of its citizens. | 11 | |
| 9310795193 | Great Society | Series of policy initiatives, legislation and programs spearheaded by President Lyndon B. Johnson with the main goals of ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality and improving the environment. | 12 | |
| 9310803058 | technocrat | An expert in science or technology who has a lot of power in or influence with the government or industry. | 13 | |
| 9310809706 | materialism | Tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. | 14 | |
| 9310814347 | feminism | A range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes. | 15 | |
| 9310824408 | green movement | Environmental movement in the United States began in the in 1960s and 1970s. This movement was originally focused on a few prominent environmental issues and disasters. | 16 | |
| 9310830205 | Common Market | A free trade area with relatively free movement of capital and services. The European Economic Community is sometimes referred to as the "Common Market", a regional organization from 1958 to 1993. | 17 | |
| 9310835337 | European Union | International organization comprising 28 European countries and governing common economic, social, and security policies. |  | 18 |
| 9310852485 | Truman Doctrine | Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces; fight communism. |  | 19 |
| 9310861210 | "ride tall" | Conservative policy of the 1980s to bolster military spending and make America prominent in the world again. | 20 | |
| 9310870038 | social mobility | Movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given society |  | 21 |
| 9310877405 | new feminism | A philosophy which emphasizes a belief in an integral complementarity of men and women, rather than the superiority of men over women or women over men. | 22 | |
| 9310884130 | brain drain | Significant emigration of educated or talented individuals; many prominent scholars left Europe during, and in the wake of, WWII. | 23 | |
| 9310896511 | Coca-colinization | Export of American cultural and social values to Europe. | 24 |
