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| Put forward by president Roosevelt advocating the establishment of an international organization to replace the ineffective League of Nations |
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| A French word for revenge and often applied to the desire to regain so called lost territories |
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| Workers, in exchange for giving up their most extreme demands, received promises of full employment, living wages, and social welfare |
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| Fear of a postwar economic downturn, in 1945, the U.S. was not seeking to make the world safe for democracy, but was instead seeking to make it safe for American trade |
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| Belief that the brutal dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, was fundamentally responsible for the development of the hostilities between the East and West |
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| The Big Three agreed to the temporary division of Germany. Also created the Allied Control Council to make joint decisions |
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| Soviet selected leader of the German Communist Party |
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| Long term, patient, but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies |
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| "It must be the policy of the U.S. to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure |
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| Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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| Military agreement between western capitalist countries |
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| Divided various nations of Eastern Europe into spheres of influence based on percentage |
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| The forest where many of the former officers of Poland were mass-executed by the Soviets |
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| U.S. policy of giving money to all nations of Europe |
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| The leader of the communist group in Yugoslavia, who sought to create an independent form of Communism |
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| The Egyptian president who nationalized the Suez Canal |
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| The leader of the nationalistic group in Indonesia, fighting for the independence of his nation |
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| Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) |
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| The European pact that was given the task of handling the money provided by the U.S. through the Marshal Plan |
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| European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) |
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| Combined and administered the steel and coal resources of its member states |
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| A court of justice, and direct income for the Community in the form of taxes |
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| Established the Economic Community (Common Market). The members of the treaty lifted all trade restrictions among themselves |
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| Provide for the free movement among member nations of capital, labor, and such services as banking and insurance |
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| Led to establish a common currency, the Euro |
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| Constitution drawn up to further increase the efficiency among EU members. Vetoed by France |
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| Leader of the Labor party of England, replacing Winston Churchill |
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| National Health Service (NHS) |
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| Founded by the labor party. This program provided a comprehensive system of free health care |
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| A period postwar when the standard of living improved for many people in the immediate postwar years due to the increase in social service |
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| The action of the current government to follow the polices of the previous government, although the two are difference in fundamental ideology |
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| Britain's Economic Decline |
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| Caused by reliance on order factories, lacked central economic planning, and had to deal with aggressive union that wanted higher wages with ought agreeing to produce gains in productivity |
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| The incidence where British troops fired and killed 13 Catholics during a civil rights march. This sparked a renewed surge of violence by groups such as the IRA that opposed the British presence in Ireland |
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| Britain's first female prime minister. She wanted tight control over the money supply to reduce inflation, sharp cuts in public spending, and a cut in taxes, particular for higher earners |
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| The prime minster who replaced Thatcher. He followed up with Thatcher's domestic polices. He signed the Maastricht Treaty |
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| The Leader of the New Labor after John Major. He focused on improving Britain's social services, reform of the House of Lords, and the devolution of power away from Westminster and toward regional parliament in Wales and Scotland |
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| This party was forcibly removed from France as U.S. refuse to give aid to a country with communist remaining in the government |
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| Designed by Jean Monnet, in order to establish the Commissariat General du Plan (CGP), which provided for nonpolitical technocrats to run the economy |
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| The process of altering the life of the local people by bringing in American influence in terms of popular culture |
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| French president who focused on social reform programs and reducing the unemployment rather than radical plans for socialization of the French economy |
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| Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI) |
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| Created in 1931, during the Fascist years. Controlled shipbuilding, airline, metallurgy, and the chemical industry |
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| Long-standing Italian problem of disparity in wealth between Northern and Southern Italy |
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| Political terrorist in Southern Italy that initiated the kidnap and murder of the former Prime Minister Aldo Moro |
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| Federal Republic of Germany |
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| The federation formed by combing the occupation zones in Germany owned by the Western powers, with its capital in Bonn |
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| Economics Minister of Konrad Adenauer (President of the Federal Republic of Germany), who is responsible for the economic miracle in German |
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| Treaty signed by Willy Brandt with the Soviet Union, Poland, and Czechoslovakia and provided for de facto recognition of the East German state |
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| Nationalistic movement in Czech attempting to reform the government toward a more humanistic socialism within certain limits |
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| Response to the Prague Spring, declaring that the Soviet Union would support within all the means as its disposal any established communist state in Eastern Europe that was threatened by internal strife |
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| Economic restructuring of the state |
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