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| Soviet allies in Eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary |
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| U.S. President after Franklin Roosevelt in the early years of the Cold War; his foreign policy was to contain Communism through diplomacy and military strength |
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| term coined by British P.M. Churchill to describe the political division of Europe between free (Western Europe) and repressed (Eastern Europe) during the Cold War |
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| U.S. aid to Western Europe after WWII helped it recover and concurrently staved off Communist inroads made in the interim |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization; U.S.-led alliance including Western Europe, Canada, and Turkey against Soviet aggression there |
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| state-run "cradle to grave" care that developed in Western Europe and spread in varying forms to the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand |
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| a type of bureaucrat in this era who often had training in engineering or economics; hired to support the welfare state bureaucracy |
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| political movement and party that arose in several Western European nations in the 1970s that opposed unfettered free market economies and unchecked industrial pollution |
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| final name of the Common Market; an economic and, later, political movement in Europe that supported free markets to compete with the U.S. and eventually, the goal of forming a common government in much of Europe |
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| a wave of women's rights agitation reappeared in the 1960s promoting job opportunities and other civil rights issues for women; two early leaders were Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan |
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| barrier built by the U.S.S.R. in 1961 in East Germany to keep that nation's subjects from fleeing to liberty in West Berlin; major Cold War symbol until it was torn down in 1989 |
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| trade union movement in Poland that developed into a political pressure group that supported reforms from the Communist leadership |
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| 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 U.S.S.R. |
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| leader of U.S.S.R. after Stalin's death; criticized his predecessor's abuses, signaling a bit of thaw in the Cold War; after backing down in the Cuban Missle Crisis, he was removed from power and exiled within the U.S.S.R. |
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| 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 |
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| also known as developing nations; nations outside the capitalist industrial nations of the first world and the industrialized communist nations of the second world; generally less economically powerful, but with varied economies |
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