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AP European
Chapter 30
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9th Grade
04/20/2009

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Clement Attlee
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Socialist Labor Party under him moved toward establishment of a "Welfare State" formed government of Christian Democrats; helped regain respect for Germany
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Willy Brandt
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West Germany chancellor; sought peace with East Germany; went to Poland in December 1970; laid a wreath at the tomb of the inknown soldier another monument commemorating the armed uprising of Warsaw's Jewish ghetto against Nazi armies after which the ghetto was destroyed and survivors were sent to the gas chambers
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Brazhnev Doctorine
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Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need
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Brinkmanship
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International relations involving the deliberate creation of a risk of war to apply pressure on the other party
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COMECON
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The economic association organzied by the communist states
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Containment
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Attempt to contain communism in areas already occupied  by the Red Army as indicated in the Truman Doctrine
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Council of Europe
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Brought about by the Marshall Plan in 1948 as an attemt to evolve into a Parliament yet became only a mulitnational debating society
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Charles De Gaulle
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Leader of the Free French General that resigned in 1946 after re-establishing the free, democratic Fourth Republic
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De-Stalinization
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Liberalization of the Soviet Union
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Anthony Eden
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Opposed Chamberlain's policy of appeasement towards Hitler. Became prime minister in 1955, resigned in 1957
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Ludwig Erhard
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Minister of the economy, bet on the free econonmy while maintaining the extensive social welfare network inherited from the Hitler era
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Euratom
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European Atomic Energy Community established by the treaty of Rome to regulate and research nuclear energy merged with the EEC
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European Coal and Steel Company
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International organization to control and integrate all European coal and steel production. Consisted of West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France. Number one goal to be so close together economically that war against them impossible. "The six"
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European Economic Community
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caused by the Marchall Plan
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Hungarian Revolution
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1956. Led by the students and workers, installed Liberal Communist Imre Nagy. Forced soviet soldiers to leave and promised free election, renounced Hungary's military alliance with Moscow. Revolution was crushed by the Soviet Union
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"Inner Six"
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members of the EEC
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Iron Cutrain Speech
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March 1946 Winston Churchill at Fulton College Missouri; and an "iron curtan" had fallen across the continent
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Russian premier after Stalin. Led de-Stalinization of Russia. A reformer who argued for major innovations
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Marshall Plan
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U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall urged Americans to offer economic aide- this was the Marshall Plan. Refused by Stalin
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Imre Nagy
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liberal communist reformer installed as Chief by the people of Budapest
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NATO
Definition
North Atlantic Treaty Organization- formed in 1949 by US anti-Soviet military alliance of Western Governments
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"Peaceful Coexistence"
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Krushev's forgein policy; peaceful coexistence with communism was possible
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Schuman Plan
Definition
called for special international organization to control and integrate all European coal and steal production
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Treaty of Rome
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Six nations of Coal and Steal Community signed to create EEC
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Warsaw Pact
Definition
Created by Stalin to counter NATO and to tighten his hold on satellites
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Perestroika
Definition
Economic restructuring by Gorbachev
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Glasnost
Definition
A newfound openness of government and media
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Re-stalinization
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Soviet Union started a period of stagnation. Saw de-Stalinization as a dangerous threat
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