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OPEC |
oil cartel responsilble for controlling the production and distribution of the worlds oil |
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common market |
european economic community created in 1957 |
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solidarity |
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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Cold war |
period of continuous struggle between Western Powers and Soveit union following ww2 |
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containment |
us policy of preventing spread of communism |
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detente |
relaxing of tensions beween us and soviet union after ww2 |
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balkans |
refers to nations of southeastern europe |
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marshall plan |
12 billion ecnonic revovery program to rebuild western europe |
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truman doctrine |
us policy to contain communism to areas already occupied by the red army |
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NATO |
the military alliance of westen powers and the us after ww1 |
