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Ch 30
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10th Grade
03/18/2010

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Term
Big Three
Definition
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
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Yalta Conference
Definition
Where the "Big Three" met in the Black Sea where they determined soon-to-be postwar Germany's faith.
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Potsdam Conference
Definition
Postwar Conference held in Germany.
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Harry Truman
Definition
Succeeded Roosevelt.
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Marshall Plan
Definition
Economic aid to all European countries by the U.S. Its goal was to bring recovery and lessen the dangers of Communism.
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NATO
Definition
Anti-Soviet military alliance of wester governments. Formed by the U.S.
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Cold War
Definition
Political, Economic, and Military tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S. after World War 2.
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Christian Democrats
Definition
Progressive Catholics and revitalized Catholic political parties. Emerged as one of the leading political parties in the postwar elections.
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General Douglas Macarthur
Definition
American General who intervened in the Korean War.
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Charles De Gaulle
Definition
Leader of the Free French, re-established the free and democratic Fourth Republic.
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Alcide de Gisperi
Definition
Leader of the Christian Democrats.
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Konrad Adenauer
Definition
Leader of West Germany and rebuilt its economy by using the influx of refugees as a valuable resource.
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"Welfare State"
Definition
Term that described Britain because the government started to give welfare and free medical service to the citizens.
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Keynesian Economics
Definition
Generally accepted by countries during postwar Europe as they sought to stimulate their economies.
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Ludwig Erhard
Definition
Succeeded Adenauer, West Germany suffered a temporary recession during his reign.
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Jean Monnet
Definition
An economic pragmatist and apostle of European unity.
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Common Market
Definition
Integrated all the coal, steel production without tariffs between France, Luxembourg, West Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, and Italy.
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Treaty of Rome
Definition
Signed by Luxembourg, France, West Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy which created the European Economic Community... or Common Market.
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Decolonization
Definition
The most basic cause of imperial collapse. The rising demand of Asian and African peoples for national self-determination, racial equality, and personal dignity.
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Mahatma Ghandi
Definition
Build a mass movement preaching nonviolent "noncooperation" with the British. 20th centuries most influential figures.
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Kuomintang
Definition
National People's Party. Dedicated to unifying China and abolishing European concessions.
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Mao Zedong
Definition
Communist leader, with the help of Soviet aid, won victory over China and brushed off Chiang Kai-Shek to Taiwan.
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Ho Chi Minh
Definition
Communist and nationalist guerrilla leader of Vietnam. Supported by China and Soviet Union. Defeated the French in Vietnam.
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Isreal
Definition
The new Jewish State after the war.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Definition
Young army officer in Egypt who drove off the pro-western king.
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Algeria
Definition
Colony of France
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Neocolonialism
Definition
A system designed to perpetuate Western economic domination and undermine the promise of political independence.
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Josip Broz Tito
Definition
Communist leader of Yugoslavia who resisted Soviet domination successfully.
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Nikita Krushchev
Definition
Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalins death. Attacked Stalin's power and started the policy of De-Stalinization.
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De-Stanilization
Definition
Liberalization. Started by Krushchev.
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Boris Pasternak
Definition
Soviet novelist who wasn't allowed to receive the Nobel prize for Literature.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Definition
Russian writer who wrote about the grim detailed life in one of Stalin's concentration camps.
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Leonid Breznev
Definition
Led the Soviet Union in the Cold war. Under him, the Soviet Union began a period of stagnation and limited "re-Stalinization".
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Big Science
Definition
A new model for science during World War 2.
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Misery Index
Definition
Combined the rates of inflation and unemployment in a single, powerfully emotional number.
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detente
Definition
The progressive piecemeal relaxation of cold war tensions.
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Richard Nixon
Definition
President of U.S. Sought to gradually disengage America from Vietnam and the accompanying national crisis.
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Willy Brandt
Definition
Socialist Chancellor of West Germany. Wanted the reconciliation of West and East Germany.
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Simone de Beauvoir
Definition
She argued that women-like all human beings-were in essence free but they had almost always been trapped by particularly inflexible and limiting conditions.
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Betty Friedan
Definition
Said that women faced what feminists would soon call sexism.
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Brezhnev Doctrine
Definition
The Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need.
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Manhattan Project
Definition
Top-secret project for the creation of the A-bomb.
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James Watson
Definition
Discovered the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity.
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Green movement
Definition
Environmental movement which started in Germany.
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Francois Mitterand
Definition
Launched a vast program of nationalization and public investment designed to spend France out of economic stagnation.
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