AP Euro Unit 9

“Iron curtain”

A divide between Western Europe and Eastern Europe during the Cold war, popularized by Winston Churchill.

Truman Doctrine

A US policy to contain communism by giving aid to countries affected by it especially Greece and Turkey.

Greek Civil War

War between the Greek government (backed by Britain and the US) against the communist Greek Party. Influenced the development of the Truman doctrine.

Marshall Plan

A US program where they gave economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.

COMECON

An organization created by the Soviet Union as a response to the Marshall plan to control the economies of Eastern Europe.

Berlin Blockade

An attempt by the Soviet Union to cut off West Berlin during the Cold War.

Berlin airlift

An US operation to give resources to West Berlin after the Berlin Blockade blocked land access.

NATO

Warsaw Pact

Big Science

arms race

space race

Sputnik I

NASA

economic miracle

Christian Democrats

A mixture of Christian values, anti communism, and capitalist values. Influential in West Germany where leaders used the values to rebuild.

exceptions of Greece, Spain, & Portugal

The only nations in Western Europe that did not develop a democratic government post WWII. Greece was having a war while Spain and Portugal had authoritarian leaders. They joined anti communism during the Cold War.

welfare state

European Economic Cooperation (EEC)

A corporation for helping Europe recover from communism

Council of Europe

Council with a goal of maintaining human rights after WWII.

European Coal and Steel Community

A community to manage coal and steel and prevent future conflicts. Led up the the EEC.

Charles de Gaulle

expansion of consumer market

Cominform

East Bloc

Josip Tito

East German construction workers revolt (1953)

Socialist Realism

Nikita Khrushchev

de-Stalinization

“peaceful coexistence”

1956 Polish protests

Imre Nagy

1956 Hungarian uprising

Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Lenoid Brezhnev

decolonization

impact of the Cold War on decolonization

nonalignment

decolonization in Dutch Indonesia

Ho Chi Minh

First Indochina War*

Mohandas Gandhi

Partition of India

British Commonwealth

UN Partition of Palestine & Creation of Israel

Gamal Abdel Nasser

nationalization of the Suez Canal

decolonization in the Belgian Congo

National Liberation Front

Algerian War

Fifth Republic

neocolonialism

growth of white-collar workers

changes to European working class

patterns of post-war migration

guest worker programs

postcolonial migration

rising xenophobia

baby boom

declines in birth rates in 1960s/70s

rising rates of working women

double burden

teenager culture

Willy Brandt

Ostpolitik

détente

Helsinki Accords

the affluent society

Americanization of Europe

Second Vatican Council

counterculture

impact of US Civil Rights Movement

New Left

sexual revolution

birth control pill

rock n’roll

The Beatles

Vietnam War

antiwar demonstrations

Tet Offensive

Vietnamization

May 1968 French Student Protests

New Left use of terrorism

Soviet stagnation in the 1960-70s & responses

Bitterfield Movement

samizdat

1968 “Prague Spring”

Alexander Dubček

“Socialism with a Human Face”

Brezhnev Doctrine

oil shock

causes of economic downturn in the 1970s

stagflation

postindustrial society

rust belts

punk rock

neoliberalism

Milton Friedman