AP World Ch. 31-32 Flashcards

143545662	Eastern Bloc	Soviet allies in Eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Czechosolvakia, Romania, and Hungary	0
143545663	Warsaw Pact	Soviet Response to NATO; members part of the Eastern Bloc	1
143545664	Harry Truman	U.S. President after FDR in the early years of the cold war. His foreign policy was to contain Communism through diplomacy and military strength	2
143545665	Iron Curtain	Term coined by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to describe the political division of Europe between free (W. Europe) and represed (Eastern Europe) during the cold war	3
143545666	Marshall Plan	U.S. aid to western Europe after WWII helped it recover and concurrently staved off Communist inroads made in the interim	4
143545667	NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization. U.S. led alliance including western Europe, Canada, and Turkey against Soviet aggression there, now includes some former communist countries of E.Europe	5
143545668	Welfare State	State-run "cradle to grave" care that developed in western Europe and spread in varying forms to the U.S. Canada, Ausralia, and New Zealand	6
143545669	Technocrat	A type of bureaucrat in this era who often had training in engineering or economics, hired to support the welfare state buerucracy	7
143545670	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	8
143545671	European Community	Final name of the Common Market; an economic and, later, political movement in Europe that supported free markets to compete with the U.S. ad eventually, the goal of forming a common government in much of Europe	9
143545672	New Feminism	A wave of women's rights agitation reappeared n the 1960's promting job opportunites and other civil rights issues for women. Two early leaders were Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan	10
143545673	Berlin Wall	Barrier built by the USSR in 1961 in E. Germany to keep that nation's subjects from fleeing to liberty in W. Berlin. Major cold war symbol until it was torn down in 1989	11
143545674	Solidarity	Trade union movement in Poland that developed into a political pressure group that supported reforms from the Communist leadership	12
143545675	Aleksandr Solzhentsyn	Soviet writer of anti-Communist expose "The Gulag Archipelago" who was exiled to the West; he later returned to Russia after the fall of the USSR	13
143545676	Nikita Khrushchev	Leader of the USSR after Stalin's death Criticized his predecessor's abuses, signaling a bit of a thaw in the cold war. After backing down in the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was removed from power and exiled within the USSR	14
143545677	Zapatistas	Guerilla movement named in honor of Emiliano Zapata; originated in 1994 in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas; government responded with a combination of repression and negotiation	15
143545678	Third World	Also known as developing nationsl nations outside the capatalist industrial nations of the first world and the industrilized cmmunist nations of the second world; generally less economically powerful, but with varied economies	16
143545679	United Nations	...	17
143545680	Cold War	...	18
143545681	World Bank	...	19
143545682	Truman Doctrine	...	20
143545683	Korean War	...	21
143545684	Vietnam War	...	22
143545685	Cuban missile crisis	...	23
143545686	Helsinki Accords	...	24
143545687	nonaligned nations	...	25
143545688	Cultural Revolution (China)	...	26
143545689	OPEC	Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.	27
143545690	proxy wars	...	28
143545691	Salvador Allende	...	29
143545692	Dirty War	...	30
143545693	Sandinistas	...	31
143545694	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini	...	32
143545695	Saddam Husain	...	33
143545696	neo-liberalism	...	34
143545697	keiretsu	...	35
143545698	Asian Tigers	...	36
143545699	newly industrialized economies (NIEs)	...	37
143545700	Deng Xiaoping	...	38
143545701	Tiananmen Square	...	39
143545702	Mikhail Gorbachev	...	40
143545703	perestroika	...	41
143545704	Thomas Malthus	...	42
143545705	demographic transition	...	43