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11 Cards in this Set
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Big Three
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Nickname for the USA, UK and USSR during WW2
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Bizonia
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Name given to the British and American zones in Western Germany
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Capitalist
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Western Countries political and economic system - people can make profits and there is a free choice in elections
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Comecon
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Soviet Unions version of the Marshall Plan for eastern Europe
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Communist
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Soviet and Eastern European countries political system - private profit is not allowed and there is no free choice in elections - only communists
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Grand Alliance
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The military alliance of UK, USA and USSR in the second world war
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Iron Curtain
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Churchills name for the division of Europe into Eastern (communist) and Western (capitalist) areas after WW2
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treat Organisation - military alliance of western countries
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Reparations
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Compensation
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Satellite state
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Name given to Eastern European Counties that were really controlled by the Soviet Union
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Warsaw Pact
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Eastern European military alliance (really controlled by the USSR)
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