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| Conference in which the big three agreed to allow the Soviets to liberate eastern Europe alone and refocus their efforts on defeating Germany. |
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| Conference where the big three decided that they would divide Germany into zones of occupation and that they would have to pay reparations to the Soviet Union. |
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| Meeting between the Big Three in which Churchill and Truman demanded free elections in eastern Europe and Stalin refused. |
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| Extended conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. This conflict never escalated into full war, but tensions between the two powers were very high. |
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| Designed to contain communism in areas which were liberated by the Soviet Union. |
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| Plan made up by Secretary of State George C. Marshall which provided funds for the reconstruction of Europe following World War II |
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| Treaty of western nations led by the United States designed to oppose communism. |
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| Aid sent by the United States and Britain to West Berlin during the Soviet blockade. |
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| The Soviet response to NATO, united all the nations in Eastern Europe under one alliance determined to uphold communism. |
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| Economic agreement between the nations of Europe in which they would all share an economic structure and push for the eventual elimination of tariffs. |
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| Treaty which provided for the EEC in Europe, whose ultimate goal was no tariffs, free movement of labor, and common economic policies. |
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| Soviet dictator who used methods such as purges and collectivization in order to achieve his goals of total domination. |
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| Leader of Yugoslavia who broke away from the Communist bloc. Since there were no Russian armies in the area, the Soviet Union could do nothing about it. |
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| Leader of the Soviet Union following Stalin. He was a supporter of de-Stalinization, a policy which included the denunciation and reversal of Stalinist policies. This later led to his downfall and the ascension of his replacement, Brezhnev. |
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| The denunciation and reversal of Stalinist policies by Khruschev. This eventually led to his downfall. |
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| Czechoslovakian leader who tried to use more compassionate measures to his socialist regime. He wanted to have free elections. However, the Soviet union did not want free elections and they sent troops over to make sure it didn’t happen. |
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| Soviet leader following Khrushchev. He wanted to re-Stalinize the Soviet Union. He invaded Czechoslovakia when their new leader wanted to have free elections. He also established the Brezhnev doctrine, which stated that the Soviet Union had the right to interfere in the affairs of countries in the Warsaw pact if he feared their communist regimes were in danger. |
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| Project to develop nuclear weapons. This project eventually culminated in the testing of a nuke in July 1945 and the dropping of two atomic bombs in August 1945. |
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| the progressive relaxation of cold war tensions. |
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| agreement in which all European nations except Europe, Canada and the US agreed to accept the existing political boundaries of Europe. This agreement also wanted civil rights in the Communist bloc. This however did not occur. |
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| Arab organization which declared an embargo on oil exported to the United States because the United States was providing weapons to Israel. |
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| German chancellor who fell to his knees at the memorial in Poland, apologizing for the crimes of his people. However, he had to resign following controversy including one of his staff members being an East German spy. |
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| When Richard Nixon’s men were caught in the Democratic party headquarters in Watergate, this scandal forced the resignation of President Nixon. |
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| measurement which combined unemployment and inflation rates to determine a single number. |
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| Leading feminist who founded the NOW, the national organization of Women. This organization called for better rights for women and more equal opportunities. |
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