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| Postwar refugees, including 13 million Germans, former Nazis, and orphaned children |
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| policy of containing communism towards the Soviet Union |
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| American plan for providing economic aid to Western Europe to help it rebuild. |
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| COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) |
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| An economic organization of communist states meant to help rebuild eastern Europe under Soviet auspices |
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| the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an anti Soviet alliance of Western governments. |
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| Soviet-backed military alliance of Eastern nations |
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| Center-right political parties that rose to power in Western Europe after WWII. |
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| Center-right political parties that rose to power in Western Europe after WWII. |
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| The European Economic Community, created by six western European nations in 1957 as part of a larger search for European unity |
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| The liberalization of the post-Stalin Soviet Union led by reformer Nikita Khrushchev. |
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| The postwar reversal of Europe's overseas expansion caused by the rising demands of the colonized people themselves, the declining power of European nations, and the freedom promised by America and Soviet |
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| policy of postcolonial governments to remain neutral in the Cold War and playing both sides for what they could get. |
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| Government run programs in Western Europe designed to recruit labor for their postwar economy. |
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| The postwar movement of people from former colonies and the developing world into Europe. |
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| Winston Churchill. and Roosevelt. The leaders of the Allied countries that defeated Japan and Germany in WWII |
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| Successor of Roosevelt. Utilized the first atomic bomb. Issued the Truman doctrine in order to stop the spread of communism |
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| The US Secretary of State that gave aid to Western European countries in order to stop the spread of communism |
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| Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman |
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| They were 2 Frenchmen that called for an international organization to control and integrate all European steel and coal production. This led to the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community |
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| French prime minister that withdrew French military from NATO. |
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| The resistance leader in Yugoslavia that achieved independence from the Svoiets because they had no troops in Yugoslavia. |
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| Sought to gradually disenegage American troops from Vietnam. He suspended the draft and reached a peace settlement with North Vietnam |
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| leader of China's communist party. He was supported by Stalin and united Chinas 550 million population and forced the withdrawl of the Guomdiang |
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