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Jeopardy 40
The Cold War and Postwar Europe
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10th Grade
04/08/2007

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occupying armies
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Units that controlled the German occupation zones
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a republic
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Type of government established in postwar Italy
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territories taken in the war
Definition
Defeated nations had to return these.
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war criminals
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Former Nazis were put on trial, accused of being this.
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Charles de Gaulle
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Postwar leader of France
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nationalism
Definition
Main characteristic of France's postwar foreign policy
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the Nuremburg Trials
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International forum that tried Nazi leaders for war crimes
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genocide
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Systematic killing of an entire people, practiced by Hitler
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France
Definition
Nation that objected violently to German reindustrialization
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refugees
Definition
Loss of territory to other nations caused a flood of these into Germany.
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reparations
Definition
Payments to nations that had been invaded
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the Potsdam Conference
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Wartime meeting near Berlin where the Allies agreed how the peace treaties would be written
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the Yalta Conference
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Wartime meeting in South U.S.S.R. - the Allies agreed to divide Germany into occupation zones
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four
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Number of zones Germany and Berlin were each divided into
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Trieste
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City/territory disputed by Italy and Yugoslavia
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Austria
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It took 10 years for a peace treaty to be signed with this country.
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Konrad Adenauer
Definition
West German chancellor in the 1950s and 1960s
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the Fifth French Republic
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New French government established in 1958
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Clement Atlee
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Britain's postwar leader
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the Federal Republic of Germany
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The new democratic government of West Germany
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foreign ministers
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A council of these officials wrote up the postwar peace treaties.
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the United States and the Soviet Union
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The two strongest nations of the postwar world
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the Cold War
Definition
War fought by politics and economics, not weapons
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an airlift
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How Great Britain and the United States sent supplies to Berlin
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the Berlin Wall
Definition
Massive construction between East and West Berlin
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the Iron Curtain
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Descriptive name of the nonphysical wall between Eastern and Western Europe
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Winston Churchill
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British leader who coined the term "Iron Curtain"
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East Germany
Definition
Country that surrounded Berlin
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containment
Definition
U.S. policy that aimed at restricting the spread of communism
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Greece
Definition
European country that received U.S. aid in 1947 to put down a communist-supported rebellion
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the Berlin blockade
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The Soviet attempt to keep any supplies from reaching West Berlin
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refugees
Definition
The Berlin Wall was built to stop the flow of these.
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NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Definition
The mutual defense pact of the Western nations
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the Warsaw Pact
Definition
The East European military alliance
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"peaceful coexistence"
Definition
Soviet term for harmony between East and West
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summit conferences
Definition
Meeting of the leaders of the major world powers
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South Korea
Definition
Country where the Cold War became hot in 1950
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détente
Definition
Gradual relaxation of tensions between the United States and the U.S.S.R.
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the Comintern
Definition
The Communist Information Bureau; its goal was to stir up dissent and revolution
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the Truman Doctrine
Definition
U.S. statement that it would help countries threatened by communism
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brinkmanship
Definition
Stated 1950s U.S. policy of willingness to go to the verge of war
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the U-2 Incident
Definition
Event that doomed a U.S. and Soviet conference in 1960
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the automobile industry
Definition
Germany transportation industry that became a strong competitor of its American counterpart
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the Labour Party
Definition
Great Britain's moderate socialist party
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a welfare state
Definition
State like Great Britain where government took main responsibility for its citizens' welfare
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strikes
Definition
Discontented French workers caused these to spread rapidly in 1968.
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the Marshall Plan
Definition
The European Recovery Program; it provided U.S. aid to Europe
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the mark
Definition
The most stable currency in postwar Europe
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"nationalization"
Definition
What happened to British railroads, coal mines, and utilities
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the European Economic Community
Definition
EEC, the economic and trade union of Western Europe
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the Common Market
Definition
Common name of the European economic union
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tariffs and/or import quotas
Definition
Trade barriers the Western European nations gradually dropped
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Great Britain
Definition
Major European nation that remained outside the EEC for 15 years
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tariffs
Definition
The U.S. Trade Expansion Act allowed the president to cut these.
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Africa
Definition
Many newly indpnt. nations of this continent joined the EEC as associate members in the '60s
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Secretary of State George C. Marshall
Definition
U.S. official who suggested the policy of massive aid to Europe
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agricultural policy
Definition
The EEC members had the most trouble agreeing on this policy.
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Comecon (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
Definition
The East European nations' common market
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France
Definition
Country that vetoed British membership in the EEC
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the European Coal and Steel Community
Definition
Union of Western Europe's coal and steel industries, ECSC
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"the German miracle"
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Term for the amazingly rapid economic recovery of Germany
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the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Definition
UNRRA, the organization that gave emergency relief aid to war-torn countries
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Marshal Josip Tito
Definition
The leader of Yugoslavia
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satellites
Definition
Term for the East European countries dependent on and subordinate to the U.S.S.R.
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Yugoslavia
Definition
Communist country that split with the U.S.S.R. to act independently
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Soviet leader, Stalin's successor, who visited the U.S. in 1959
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Titoism
Definition
Term for satellite independence; named for Yugoslavia's leader
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an army of occupation
Definition
Soviet troops changed from an army of liberation in Eastern Europe to this.
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Poland and the Soviet Union
Definition
Countries that took all of East Prussia
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the Red Army
Definition
Authority that set up communist governments in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary
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the German Democratic Republic
Definition
The new communist government of East Germany
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Hungary
Definition
Country that briefly deposed its Soviet-controlled government in 1956
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Poland
Definition
Country that gained a small amount of domestic independence in 1956
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Bulgaria, Czech, E Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania
Definition
The six Soviet satellites
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workers
Definition
Class of people in East Germany who revolted in 1953
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Poland
Definition
Germany lost a lot of territory to this country after World War II.
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Czechoslovakia
Definition
Country that ejected the Sudetan Germans
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the Baltic States
Definition
Northern states annexed by the U.S.S.R. in 1940
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Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania
Definition
Three northern (Baltic) states annexed by the U.S.S.R. in 1940
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Albania and Yugoslavia
Definition
Local communists set up governments in these two countries.
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Czechoslovakia
Definition
Central European country whose government went from democratic to communist in 1948
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East Germany
Definition
A workers' revolt in this country was put down by Soviet forces in 1953.
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