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| Joe Stalin, Franklin Rooselvelt, Winston Churchill |
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| Divided Germany into 2 different parts |
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| 3 places the "Big Three" met |
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| State of political hostility between soviet bloc and the US led western powers |
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| Contained communism to areas already occupied by Red Army--provided military help to those threatened by communist/soviets |
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| George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan |
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| Secretary of State-- came up with this plan that provided economic support to rebuild to Europe |
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| provided supplies to West Berlin when the Soviets blocked road access |
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| Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization--Created by the United States |
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| divided into soviet and American zones in 1945 [[Became Communist N. Korea and Anticommunist S. Korea in 1948]] |
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| Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) |
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| When the British, French, and America joined their portions of Germany into one section known as Bizonia (formally declared May 1949) |
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| Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany) |
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| was a state within the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War period. (1949-1990) Occupied by soviet forces. |
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| took control of Germany postwar. He rejected the fascism of their predecessors and placed their faith in democracy and cooperation. |
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| European Economic Community (EEC)--major step in Europe's movement toward economic and political union |
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| withdrew all French military forces from NATO, developed France's own nuclear weapons, and refused to permit majority rule within the Common Market. |
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| rolling back of western expansion, marks one of world history's great turning points |
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| Arab-led organization of countries that export oil that helps set policies and prices on its trade |
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| 1st woman prime minister in Britain |
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| popular resistance leader and communist party chief that resisted Soviet domination successfully, because there was no Russian army in Yugoslavia |
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| Led reformers that argued for major innovations and won. He spoke out in a "secret speech" against Stalin and hist crimes. |
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| Liberation of the post-Stalin Soviet Union, led by Nikita Khrushchev during his years as the head of the Soviet Union |
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| installed a liberal communist reformer as their new chief in October of 1956 |
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took over Cuba.
talked about Stalin's good points, stopped further liberalization, and launched a massive arms build up |
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| the Soviet Union and its allies could intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need |
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| Countered Khrushchev's missiles that were installed in Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba with naval blockade of Cuba |
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separated E. and W. Berlin.
This was also constructed between the 3 allied sectors of West Berlin and East Germany-- completely cut off West Berlin. |
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| took over Czech Communist Party-- called for "socialism with a human face" |
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| Elected leader of Cuba in 1985--believed in communism but he realized that Brezhnev's reforms would not be enough to save the failing state. Attempted to save the Soviet system with a series of reform policies he labeled democratic socialism |
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| soviet premier Gorbachev's popular campaign for openness in the government and the media |
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| led a working class revolt--workers organized an independent trade union they called solidarity |
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| Led by Lech Walesa, a free and democratic Polish trade union that worked for the rights of workers and political reform |
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| Radical reform communist who embraced the democratic movement--led Russian Parliament--announced that Russia would declare its independence from the Soviet Union |
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| Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy |
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| post war American presidents who only made modest adjustments to the status quo |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--challenged school segregation in the courts |
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| won the 1964 presidential election in a liberal landslide. He repaid liberals' support by getting enacted the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
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| Bob Dylan and "The Times They Are A'Changing" |
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| A song that captured the radical aspirations of some young people |
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| won independence from France in 1954, but the Eisenhower administration refused to sign the Geneva Accords that temporarily divided the country into a socialist north and an anticommunist south pending national unification by means of free elections |
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| an offensive launched by Vietcong and the N. Vietnamese army. |
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| US president that sought to disengage America gradually from Vietnam |
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| secretary of state under President Nixon |
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| progressive relaxation of Cold War tensions |
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| a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon |
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| Became president after the Watergate Scandal--pushed NATO to apply economic sanctions to the Soviet Union, but among the European allies only Great Britain supported Carters plan. |
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| Iraq's strongman that invaded Kuwait |
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| spoke of "new world order." Meaning the US and a cooperative United Nations working together to impose peace and security throughout the world |
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| US president from 1993-2001--took office at the end of the Cold War and was the first president of the baby boomer generation |
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