Chapter 31 key terms Flashcards

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24040490	Eastern Bloc	Soviet allies on eastern Europe; Poland, East Germany, Hungary	0
24040491	Harry Truman	U.S president after F.D.R in the early years of the cold war, contain Communism	1
24040492	Iron Curtain	The political division of Europe between free and repressed Europe in the Cold War	2
24040493	Marshall Plan	U.S. aid to western Europe	3
24040494	NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization, against Soviet aggression	4
24040495	Warsaw Pact	Soviet response to NATO	5
24040496	Welfare state	"cradle to grave" care that developed in western Europe and spread in the U.S	6
24040497	Technocrat	A type of bureaucrat that had training in engineering or economics	7
24040498	European Union	Final name of the Common Market, economic and political movement in Europe	8
24040499	Berlin Wall	Barrier built by the U.S.S.R in 1961 in East Germany to keep that nation's subjects from fleeing	9
24040500	Solidarity	Trade union movement in Polans that developed into a political pressure group supported by Commies	10
24040501	Aleksandr Solzhentsyn	Soviet writer of anti-Communist expose The Gulag Archipelago	11
24040502	Nikita Khrushchev	Leader of USSR after Stalin's death, backed down the Cuban missile crisis	12
24040503	Zapatistas	Guerilla movement on Mexico	13
24040504	Third World	Also known as developing nations, less economically powerful	14