AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

Stalin

A guy from russia, wanted to grow industry

Krushchev

The guy after stalin, humiliated after cuban misstle crisis

Desalinization

because Stalin left, a lot of distrust and harm happened, They got rid of his systems

Politburo

USSR powerful men who pick leaders

Hungarian uprising (1956)

crushed by Krushchev in russia

Prague Spring

A resistance group in czech (this happens after little stalin dies)

West Germany’s “economic miracle”

with the help of GB, France, USA

Charles De Gaulle’s fifth republic

Strengthen France but Charles becomes dictator

Adenauer

Leads recovery, effort in western germany

Great Britain’s welfare state

Led by clement attlee, social reform

Attlee

led reform programs by labour party in GB

ECSC (European Coal and Steel community)

Eliminated Tarrifs & trade barriers

EUROTOM

European research on nuclear energy

EC/ European Community

Goal of common currency = Euro

EEC/ Common Market

Free trade w/ 6 members (Made treaty of rome)

Josip Broz Tito

Yugoslavia guy = “little stalin”

Indy Nagy

Lead Hungry revolt for free nation

Existentialism

Man is irrational, nothing matters

Vatican II

modernize the church ( Catholics and Cristians Could pray together, advocate for human rights)

Brezhnev

Leader after Krushchev, Tensions rise w/him & USA

Détente

Reduce tensions/Arms between Russia & USA

Brezhnev Doctorine

Protest socialism w/military (Afganistán, Czech Republic)

Lech Walsea

Lead workers union revolt in poland, later president

Solidarity

w/unions across the globe (especially in poland)

Vaclav Havel

President during revolts, steps down after split

Alexander Dubcek

Lead prague spring in czech

Erich Honecker

East Germany president

Helmut Rohl

united west & east germany

Helsinki Agreements, 1975

protected human rights, Recognized new borders of europe

Margaret Thatcher “Iron Lady” and Thatcherism

British PM, Low inflation, Free market

Simone De Beauvoir

philosopher french = gender is a social construct

Betty Friedan

Feminism mystic “women should fight for themselves”

Michael Gorbachev

ends cold war/communism in russia

Perestroika

Capitalist economy

Glasnost

less censorship

Democratization

new parliament

Commonwealth of independent states

follows the fall of the USSR

Slobodan Milosevic

leader of serbian army of the muslim bosnians peace agreement to split bosnia /nato reeps bombing/ ends in the north

Saadi Yacef

Leader of NLF

Charles de Gaulle

helped free algeria