Section 7

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Atlantic Charter & United Nations

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In 1941 President Roosevelt made the idea of the Atlantic Charter instead of the League of Nations. Four years after that representatives from 50 nations made the United Nations at a meetinf in San Francisco.

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Cold War

Back 2

This was a period of tension and rivarly from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s between the U.S.A and the Soviet Union. Their was the space race and they both were worried about the other countries weapon development.

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Yalta Conference

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This is when the Big Three, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the U.S.A. talked about the future of Germany. They decide to break Germany into 4 parts. Each one of the Big Three would help a section of Germany. France got the 4th section.

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George Kennan "long telegram" and Containment

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Kennan was an offical in the State Department in the U.S. He wrote the "long telegram" which said the he Soviet Union saw us as an ideological enemy and would never try to coexist wiht the U.S. Containment was was trying to stop the Soviet Union from expanding.

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Truman Doctrine

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This document said that the U.S. should protect the free people in the world. Then he aked congress for $400 million to be given to the Greece and Turkey.

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NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

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NATO started in 1949. Originally it was the U.S. Great Britain, France, Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Norway. Greece and Turkey loined in 1952.

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Iron Curtain

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This is a metaphor that Churchill used to describe the Soviet Union's ruke if it conqured Eastern Europe.

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Poland, Soviet Communism, and Katyn

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The Soviet Union help put Polish Communists in office in Poland. They would have to force to keep the communists in office after it was revealed that the Soviets were behind killng 15,000 Polish Officers in the forest of Katyn.

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Marshall Plan

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This was a plan to help rebuild Europe after the War. This was a plan made by the U.S. to give money to European contries.

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Yugoslavia and Marshal (Josip) Tito

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Thier was a Cical War in Yugoslavia fought between the communists lead by Tito and the royalist Chetniks. the communists won the war.

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Aspects of Decolonization

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The U.S.A stop giving loan to Great Britain becasue they weren't happy about how they had colonies around the world. Without the help of the U.S. Great Britain started to loose their colonies.

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Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC)

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This was made to distribute the money Europe got from the Marshall Plan. They also tried to lower the tariffs and breaking the trade barriers among the European nations

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European Coal and Steel Community

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This was made in 1951 to distribute coal and steel to the countries part of it. It also lead to the creation of a court of justice and taxes.

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European Economic Community (EEC)- ie., Common Market

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This came out of the Treaty of Rome in 1957. It lifted all teh trade restrictions of the nations involved in this community.

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Maastricht Treaty/ European Union

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Thsi treaty happened in 1992. It made the Euro which started to be used in Jan. 2002. It also changed the EEc into the European Union. This treaty increaded cooreration in defense justice, and enviromental affairs.

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Clement Attlee & Labour Party

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Attlee was the elected Prime Minister, he was part of the Labour Party. They replaced Churchill and his COnservation Party.

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England's National Health Service

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This was a system for free health care. This was set up by the Labour Party.

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Bloody Sunday & Irish Republican Army

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Bloody Sunday happened on Jan. 30, 1972 when British troops shot and killed 13 civil right marchers in Northern Ireland. The Irish Republic Army is a group that opposed the British in Northern Ireland.

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Margaret Thatcher

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She was the leader of the Conservation and became Britain's first women Prime Minister in 1979. She reduce inflation, public spending, and cut taxes.

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Fourth French Republic

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This was created after WWII. During this government women got the right to vote. This Republic had to deal with colonial problems.

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Fifth French Republic

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This was made in 1958 after there was a fear of a military coup. De Gaulle became president and had more power than the president had in teh 4th French Republic.

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France's independent foreign policy in 1960s

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This is when France left NATO in 1966 This was to help show that France could defend for itself.

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France's 1968 Student Revolts

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This happened becasue their were to many people in classrooms and libraries. They wanted a reordering of the French society

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Francois Mitterrand

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The was part of the Socialist party in France, and was elected president in 1981. He was the longest person to be the French president.

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Italy's Christian Democrats and Communists

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The Christian Democrats were the leading political party in Italy after the fall of Mussolini until the 1990s. The Itlain Communists were the next biggest party. This was because they had a looser view on communism than other communists.

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Berlin Blockade and Airlift

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The Berlin Blockade was when Stalin block Berlin from the West. The Berlin airlift was when the U.S. and Great Britain set supplies to Berlin. This went on for 10 and a half months until Stalin lifted the blockade.

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Federal Republic of Germany & German Democratic Republic

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The Federal Republic of Germany was made when France, Great Britain, and the U.S.A. combined their zones of Germany in 1949. In responce to this the Soviet Union made Eastern Germany the German Democratic Republic.

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Berlin Wall

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This was created in 1961 by Eastern Germany. It was made becasue the smart people of Eastrn Germany were leaving to go to Weatern Germany.

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Konrad Adenauer (Christian Democratic Union)

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Konrad was the leader of the Federal Republic of Germany and his political party the Christian Democratic Union from 1949 to 1963.

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Willy Brandt (Social Democrats)

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Brandt was the leader of the Social Democrats in Western Germany. He bacame the Chancellor in 1969. His was the fist Socialist leader since 1930.

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Ostpolitik

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This was a contact between Western Germany and teh Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. This led to signing of treaties between Western Germany and countries in Eastr Europe.

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Helmut Schmidt (Social Democrat)

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He became the Chancellor of Western Germany in 1973. He was part of the Social Democrat.

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Helmut Kohl (Christian Democratic Union)

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He became the Chancellor of Western Germany in 1982. He was part of the Christian Democratic Union.

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Warsaw Pact & COMECON

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The Warsaw Pact was a treaty made by the Soviet Unoin to help from other nations invading them. COMECON was a wat to link their economies.

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Nikita Khrushchev & de-Stalinization

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Khrushchev became the leader of Russia after Satlin died inm 1953. He blamed and criticized much of what Stalin did.

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Prague Spring

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This was a reform movment in Czechoslovakia. They pushed for more humanistic socialism.

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Brezhnev Doctrine

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This said that the Soviet Union would use anything it could to make Eastern Europe Communists.

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Soidarity & Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa lead a revolt of workers asking for a treade union, This new union was called Soidarity.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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He ha a mind of reform, He became the leader of the Kremlin. He said he was against the Brezhnev Doctrine which lead to the fall of communism in most of Eastern Europe in 1989 and 1990.

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Chernobyl

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This was a nuclear power plant in Russia. There was an problem with on of the nuclear reactors which ended up killing many people.

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glasnost

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This allowed debate in the Soviet Union. Thsi was allowed under Gorbachev.

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perestroika

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This was an economic restruction of the Soviet Union.

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Boris Yeltsin

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He was head of the Soviet's Parliament. There was a coup to undermine Gobachev. Yeltsin stoped the coup and this ended the Soviet Union.

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Slobodan Milosevic & Ethnic Cleansing

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He was the President of Yugoslavia in 1992, when the Muslims wanted Bosnia to break away and become its own state. This lead to Ehtnic Cleansing of the Muslims by making them leave of killing them.

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Dayton Accords of 1995

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This was made to bring peace to Bosnia from the Serbs firing shells in the Bosnian capitol. This dii bring peace for a while.