Chapter 27: Cold War and Postwar Changes

Heavy industry

________ (the manufacture of machines and equipment for factories and mines) increased, chiefly for the benefit of the military.

Liberal Party

The ________ dominated Canadian politics throughout most of this period.

Civil war

A(n) ________ in Greece created another area of conflict between the superpowers.

George Kennan

In July 1947, ________, a well- known U.S. diplomat with much knowledge of Soviet affairs, argued for a policy of containment to keep communism within its existing boundaries and prevent further Soviet aggressive moves.

Eastern Europe

At the end of World War II, Soviet military forces occupied all of ________ and the Balkans (except for Greece, Albania, and Yugoslavia)

Alexander Dubcek

In January 1968, ________ was elected first secretary of the Communist Party.

Clement Attlee

Under ________, the new prime minister, the Labour government set out to create a modern welfare state- a state in which the government takes responsibility for providing citizens with services and a minimal standard of living.

EEC

The ________ was a free- trade area made up of the six member nations.

administration of John F Kennedy

During the ________, the Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union reached frightening levels.

West Germany

In 1957, France, ________, the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg), and Italy signed the Rome Treaty.

Central Treaty Organization

The ________ , which included Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Great Britain, and the United States, was meant to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding to the south.

Nikita Khrushchev

________, who emerged as the new leader of the Soviet Union in 1955, tried to take advantage of the American concern over missiles to solve the problem of West Berlin.

John F Kennedy

At age 43, ________ became the youngest elected president in the history of the United States.

Marshall Plan

The ________ was not meant to shut out the Soviet Union or its economically and politically dependent Eastern European satellite states.

Cuban missile crisis

The ________ seemed to bring the world frighteningly close to nuclear war.

Truman Doctrine

The ________ was followed in June 1947 by the European Recovery Program.

Eastern Europe

________ was the first area of disagreement.