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28 Cards in this Set
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"Inner Six"
Modern Europe |
- Members of the European Economic Community (Common Market)
- France, West Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg - Also members of the Coal and Steel Community |
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"Peaceful coexistence"
Modern Europe |
Krushev’s foreign policy
Peaceful coexistence with communism was possible. |
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Anthony Eden
Modern Europe |
Opposed Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement towards Hitler.
Became Prime minister in 1955, resigned in 1957. |
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Brezhnev Doctrine
Modern Europe |
Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need.
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Brinkmanship
Modern Europe |
International relations involving the deliberate creation of a risk of war to apply pressure on the other party.
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Charles De Gaulle
Modern Europe |
Leader of Free French Forces
Priminister of France 2 times General that resigned in 1946 after re-establishing the free, democratic Fourth Republic. |
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Clement Attlee
Modern Europe |
Socialist Labor Party under him moved toward establishment of a "Welfare State";
Formed government of England after Churchill; Nationalized industries. |
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COMECON
Modern Europe |
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
The economic association organized by the communist states |
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Containment
Modern Europe |
Attempt to contain communism in areas already occupied by the Red Army as indicated in the Truman Doctrine.
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Council of Europe
Modern Europe |
Brought about by the Marshall Plan in 1948 as an attempt to evolve into a Parliament
Became only a multinational debating society. |
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De-Stalinization
Modern Europe |
Liberalization of the Soviet Union.
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Euratom
Modern Europe |
European Atomic Energy Community
Established by the Treaty of Rome to regulate and research nuclear energy Merged with the EEC. |
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European Coal and Steel Community
Modern Europe |
- International organization to control and integrate all European coal and steel production.
- Consisted of West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France. - Number 1 goal to be so close together economically that war against them impossible. "The inner six". |
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European Economic Community
Modern Europe |
Created by the Marshall Plan.
Known as the Common Market Included the "inner six" |
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Glasnost
Modern Europe |
Russian newfound openness of government and media.
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Hungarian Revolution
Modern Europe |
1956.
1) Led by students and workers, 2) installed Liberal Communist Imre Nagy, 3) Forced soviet soldiers to leave, 4) promised free election, 5) renounced Hungary’s military alliance with Moscow, 6) revolution was crushed by the Soviet Union. |
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Imre Nagy
Modern Europe |
Liberal communist reformer
Installed as Chief by the people of Budapest. |
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Iron Curtain Speech
Modern Europe |
March 1946
Given by Winston Churchill at Fulton College in Missouri; Said an "iron curtain" had fallen across the Continent. |
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Ludwig Erhard
Modern Europe |
Minister of the economy
Bet on the free economy while maintaining the extensive social welfare network inherited from the Hitler era. |
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Marshall Plan
Modern Europe |
Developed by U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall
Americans to offer economic aide to countries after WW II Refused by Stalin. |
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NATO
Modern Europe |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Formed in 1949 by U.S. Anti-Soviet military alliance of Western governments. |
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Nikita Khrushchev
Modern Europe |
Russian premier after Stalin.
Led de-Stalinization of Russia. A reformer who argued for major innovations. |
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Perestroika
Modern Europe |
Economic restructuring by Gorbachev
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Restalinization
Modern Europe |
Soviet Union started a period of stagnation.
Saw de-Stalinization as a dangerous threat. |
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Schuman Plan
Modern Europe |
Called for special international organization to control and integrate all European coal and steal production.
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Treaty of Rome
Modern Europe |
Six nations of Coal and Steal Community signed to create EEC.
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Warsaw Pact
Modern Europe |
Created by Stalin to counter NATO and to tighten his hold on satellites.
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Willy Brandt
Modern Europe |
West German chancellor; sought peace with East Germany; went to Poland in December 1970; laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier and another monument commemorating the armed uprising of Warsaw's Jewish ghetto against Nazi armies after which the ghetto was destroyed and survivors were sent to the gas chambers
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